Andrew> - what constitutes a 'handheld' anyway?
From the HTML 4.0 recommendation (Normatively referred to by
Associating Style Sheets with XML documents):
"handheld
Intended for handheld devices (small screen, monochrome,
bitmapped graphics, limited bandwidth)."
But in practice you are right - it IS fantasy to hope for
user agents to follow the standards.
:) Maybe that's a good description of the original Nokia 7110 browser...
I wasn't in any way being critical of mobile devices / browsers not complying
with the standard (as I think you are), I was suggesting whoever wrote the spec
was in fantasy land when they conceived the xml-stylesheet PI and its media
type attribute - it was a bit naïve to expect any mobile device to look for the
PI with a 'handheld' media type, perform the transformation itself, and then
get this univeral 'handheld' markup back that looks great on all mobile
devices....
The whole idea of associating a stylesheet with an XML document by hard-coding
it into the XML is wrong - it's a practice best avoided.
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