[whatwg] [web-apps] Some comments

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Jim Ley wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 13:45:01 +0000 (UTC), Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > The difference is that relying on JS is legitimate, while relying on CSS
> > is not.
> 
> Could you please explain how you arrived at this conclusion?  It's not
> supported by HTML or WCAG specifications.

It's not something you'd expect to see in a specification. It's a 
fundamental concept in the architecture of the Web. Media-dependent and 
platform-specific material has to be optional, since you can't expect to 
support every medium or platform (the platforms might not yet exist). On 
the other hand, content which is key to the application -- such as the 
logic behind a calculator -- clearly can't be optional.

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