XP> Suggested rationale for the presentation module

XP> Suggested rationale for the presentation module

BIGELOW,JIM (HP-Boise,ex1) jim.bigelow at hp.com
Tue Jan 7 15:23:18 EST 2003


Don,

Sounds good to me.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: don at lexmark.com [mailto:don at 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 at lexmark.com
> 
>  Chair,  IEEE SA Standards Board
>  Member, IEEE-ISTO Board of Directors
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> 
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> 
> 
> 
> "BIGELOW,JIM (HP-Boise,ex1)" <jim.bigelow at hp.com> on 
> 01/07/2003 02:46:14 PM
> 
> To:    ElliottBradshaw at oaktech.com
> cc:    don at lexmark.com, PWG XHTML-Print <xp at 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 at hp.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
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