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[Aaron Boodman]

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 8:13 AM, fantasai <fantasai.lists at inkedblade.net> wrote:
> Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>>
>> By contrast, I do not know of any actual need to determine the aspect
>> ratio of an SVG icon or the duration of a sound icon. I do not know of cases
>> where HI guidelines for particular platforms would recommend different
>> choices of icon aspect ratio or sound icon duration. Thus, I suggest we
>> limit ourselves to adding only the info that is actually known to be needed
>> at this time. If UI innovation creates a need for more info, we can add it
>> to the spec then.
>
> That's fine, but we shouldn't pick a solution here that requires adding
> attributes every time we have a similar problem.

Why? To me it seems much preferable to separate the attributes of an
object into separate name/value pairs then trying to mash them all
together into one value.

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