From: Richard Wordingham (richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com)
Date: Wed Jan 24 2007 - 16:04:45 CST
Ruszlan Gaszanov wrote on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 4:19 PM
>> I never asked for blocking PUAs on the web. Just that using them on the
>> web should
>> require an explicit protocol, and that the absence of such protocol is a
>> severe
>> issue, which also exposes users to security risks (notably if they need
>> to install
>>some site-specific software to get acces to the content), as well as bad
>>mutual
>> understanding and incorrect interpretations, if the only protocol
>> consists in
>> describing the protocol using a non-understandable humane language.
> 'To read this page properly, you need SuchNSuch font' is basically
> translated to
> HTML as <font face="SuchNSuch">...</font> ;)
and the presence of PUA characters tells you that the font is a key part of
the meaning - think of the font as specifying which extension of the non-PUA
part of Unicode is being used.
Richard.
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