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On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 17:08 -0400, Franco Catrin wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">A solution for this should be an HIG entry for notifications, but I</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">don't see the point of enforcing a particular HTML formatting in</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">notification's client applications</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Then, the HIG and/or the notification spec should say what tags should</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">be included in the notification. Theme authors should provide the XSL</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">for their theme, solving the problem of consistency between the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">notification presentation and the desktop theme.</FONT>
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The HIG tries to refrain from any recommendations based on technologies such as HTML or XML or frobnicators. We leave that up to design specs to figure out what best to implement things in. What the HIG would outline is how notifications interact with users and possibly guideline their appearance.<BR>
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Cheers,<BR>
~ Bryan
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