From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Love Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: TODO additions Date: 11 Nov 2002 20:15:48 +0000 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1037201289 21978 80.91.224.249 (13 Nov 2002 15:28:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:28:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18BzCd-00047r-00 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:13:15 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18BzOa-00066k-00 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:25:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18BLBm-0000je-00; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:29:42 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18BL3G-0003YV-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:20:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18BKyR-0000xW-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:15:56 -0500 Original-Received: from albion.dl.ac.uk ([148.79.80.39]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18BKyL-0000rF-00; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:15:50 -0500 Original-Received: from fx by albion.dl.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18BKyK-0005vS-00; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 20:15:48 +0000 Original-To: rms@gnu.org Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9365 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9365 Richard Stallman writes: > Many pages are unusable without Internet Explorer, or unusable > without Flash I know only too well, but Flash isn't in HTML 3.2, for instance. > I don't have personal experience with either kind of page, so I can't > say whether supporting background images "correctly" does more harm or > more good. I don't think it can actually harm. > What I can say is that people should not blindly assume > that supporting them "correctly" is the right choice. I'm not assuming anything like that blindly. In fact facilities for the blind is one of the things I'm interested in supporting, though I haven't been able to devote time to raman's W3 issues recently. > But maybe the issue is not a real one. If "correct" implementation of > background images is not a possible, then why worry about the issue? If XEmacs does it, presumably there isn't actually a fundamental difficulty. It's not worth further argument, anyhow.