A prototype for online DAL examples and model snipets

[Markus Demleitner]

Dear Laurent,

On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 05:51:06PM +0100, Laurent Michel wrote:
> documents "... should be viewable with 'common web browsers'. Javascript or
> CSS must not be necessary to find and interpret the elements specified". I
> just put 2 skins on the same data, one with CSS/JS and one without. The
> DALI-like pages have no references to external resources.

Oh, ouch, the thing with "without Javascript or CSS" was not intended
to mean "you must not use Javascript and CSS".  It was meant to mean:
If clients only have basic HTML widgets in their applications, the
content must still render readably.  In a browser, you're free to do
whatever you consider useful and/or beautiful.

Now, since it seems this can be misunderstood, I suggest we try to
fix the text "The document should be ... specified below" in section
2.3 of DALI.  Would the following work?

  The document content must degrade gracefully in the absence of
  client support for Javascript and CSS.  In particular, the elements
  described below must be present literally in the document as
  delivered by the server (as opposed to, e.g., being generated
  through Javascript).  The objective is that simple, in-client HTML
  widgets can be used to display the examples.


Cheers,

       Markus