Comic Sans was An alternative history... 4301

Brian,

Is there any thought that they might be enforceable?!

Thanks. Very interesting.

I recently ran onto W3's proposed standards for speech I-O, that were SO badly conceived that they would effectively block conversational speech applications (one of which I have developed)! Further, the fundamental problems were in the structure rather than the details, so that I could see no potential simple fix. I filed a protest, but the special interests (primarily Nuance) were actively disinterested in anything that got in their way, even if it pointed the way to the practical future us of their own products! Yet another case of industry shooting itself in the foot so that some incompetents can keep their jobs of telling us how to write bad software. Nuance's first step should be to fire everyone that they now have working on W3 standards!

I see what you mean. I should change the HTML to describe what I want instead of asking for "Comic Sans". However, there is just one "tiny" flaw in that argument. "Handprint" or something meaning the same thing is NOT among the choices for characteristics. Obviously W3 dropped the ball yet again, failing even to provide sufficient characteristics to uniquely specify the 10 Microsoft fonts!!! This is NOT unusual for W3, as so far everything I have seen of their output has ***SERIOUS*** flaws. The closest thing is small-caps, which would actually exclude Comic Sans.

The whole idea behind W3 is apparently to circumvent the RFC process. To actively participate you must "join" that involves paying enough money to keep you and I out of there. With industry in 100.00% control there is NO quality control, so everything they do (so far) appears to be crap.

Any thoughts on how to use what is W3 provides to select some sort of handprint if it is on the client computer? If it is there, I just don't see it (yet). Maybe I missed something.

Thanks for your efforts here. The devil is always in the details, and I can see that you have also been dealing with them.

Steve Richfie1d ==================