Elliott wrote:
> Don said "simple client". I think he was allowing a client
> program to be very naive about formatting, and using the
> presentation module as a convenience. It seems that a
> complying printer has to implement the other stuff regardless.
>
> And, if I've understood it right, that logic makes sense to me.
How about this wording?
"The Presentation module, section 5.4.1 of [XHTMLMOD] is supported
since it allows a very simple user agent to support font variants.
The module contains elements that are both structural and presentational,
provides the only method for specifying rules (the hr element), and
allows very simple clients that might not support CSS the means for
identifying font variants such as bold and italic. This module also
contains the structural mark up commands for superscripts and subscripts
that allow simple clients to identify and format these construct without
CSS properties. Supporting this module allows a client to render these
common elements in a manner that appropriate for its capabilities."
Jim Bigelow,
Editor: XHTML-Print & CSS Print Profile
IEEE, Printer Working Group
http://www.pwg.org/xhtml-print
Hewlett-Packard
208-396-2068
jim.bigelow@hp.com
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