Subject: Re: Formatting Objects considered harmful From: Paul Prescod <paul@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:54:53 -0500 |
Guy_Murphy@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > The problem with your solution is what needs to be "told" to the site > impared is often not the same as what is presented on screen. Therefore > unless you split visual presentation from aural presentation you cannot > actualy *cater* for the visualy impared, you can only give them the > unstrctured, often gibberish that is the aural interpretation of the Web > site.... ie. a second best often useless fallback.... anybody want to argue > that this is what the visualy impared deserve, or that infering aural > presentation from the bulk of Web sites meets their needs? You are attacking a straw man. I don't think that anybody is claiming that there should be no aural presentation objects. Rather we are (or at least I am) claiming that the presentation objects that most will people use should be designed specifically to degrade gracefully on non-graphical media. > Please people remember where we came from, and why we decided XML would be > desirable in the first place. What more pointless exercise could we engage > in that put all the time and effort into XML just to wind up back with > HTML? You are exaggerating severely here. Even if all progress on formatting objects (visual and aural) halted right now and we were stuck in the IE5 hell of generating HTML forever, the web would be a significantly different place by virtue of the fact that we can *deliver generic markup over the Web*. That was the goal of the sgml-on-the-web project started a couple of years ago. -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco "Microsoft spokesman Ian Hatton admits that the Linux system would have performed better had it been tuned." "Future press releases on the issue will clearly state that the research was sponsored by Microsoft." http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/enterprise/1999/9904221410.asp XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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