On Sat, 11 Dec 2010, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > >> An UA can support the scheme used without supporting the <source> > >> element. If <A> was used, they just had to support <A> and the scheme. > > > > It's still not clear to me what problem this would solve. I see what it > > would do, but why would we want that? > > > Backwards-compat. It's so UAs that don't support <source> can still > grasp some semantical information from the element.
Do you have a concrete example of how that would work? What current UAs usefully grasp such information in such a context? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
