XP Mail Archive: RE: XP> Suggested rationale for the present

RE: XP> Suggested rationale for the presentation module

From: BIGELOW,JIM (HP-Boise,ex1) (jim.bigelow@hp.com)
Date: Tue Jan 07 2003 - 15:23:18 EST

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    Don,

    Sounds good to me.

    Jim
    http://oz.boi.hp.com/~jhb/

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: don@lexmark.com [mailto:don@lexmark.com]
    > Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 12:13 PM
    > To: BIGELOW,JIM (HP-Boise,ex1)
    > Subject: RE: XP> Suggested rationale for the presentation module
    >
    >
    >
    > It would seem that sentence 2 and 3 should be combined to create:
    >
    > "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, italic, superscript and
    > subscript. Supporting this module allows a client to render
    > these common elements in a manner that appropriate for its
    > capabilities."
    >
    > **********************************************
    > Don Wright don@lexmark.com
    >
    > Chair, IEEE SA Standards Board
    > Member, IEEE-ISTO Board of Directors
    > f.wright@ieee.org / f.wright@computer.org
    >
    > Director, Alliances & Standards
    > Lexmark International
    > 740 New Circle Rd
    > Lexington, Ky 40550
    > 859-825-4808 (phone) 603-963-8352 (fax)
    > **********************************************
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > "BIGELOW,JIM (HP-Boise,ex1)" <jim.bigelow@hp.com> on
    > 01/07/2003 02:46:14 PM
    >
    > To: ElliottBradshaw@oaktech.com
    > cc: don@lexmark.com, PWG XHTML-Print <xp@pwg.org>
    > Subject: RE: XP> Suggested rationale for the presentation module
    >
    >
    >
    > 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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