[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Quoting Oleg Goldshmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Now your situation only strengthens the agrument for standards. If you > > ignore the standards the IE6 users (and possibly Mozilla 1.4 users in > > a few months, and Opera 9.118 or whatever, etc) will see your site as > > broken. Which it is, because standards are ignored. > > Not exactly. Not having a privacy policy is not "breaking standards" anymore > than "not having DHTML" on the site, or "Not using Unicode character > representations".
Quite possibly not. The other side - the browser - does have a privacy policy, or at least may have a privacy policy. Now you are using privacy-related stuff (cookies), and you need to talk to the other guy. The standards define the way two entities with differing policies can talk to each other, even without knowing each other's specific policies. If the policies are incompaticle for non-technical reasons, that's another matter. IIRC, you cannot use, say, the Jerusalem Post site if you don't accept cookies as a matter of privacy policy. Technical standards do not define that. They say, cookies are standard, and one's browser should support them. Whether or not you are wiling to use them vis-a-vis JP is your decision. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
