Re: LONGDESC: some current problems and a proposed solution added to the wiki

Peter Krantz wrote:

> Yes. But not only users with a visual impairment. As I mentioned
> earlier, the relationship between an image and the descriptive content
> could be valuable for makers of search engines and in scripting
> scenarios.

Indeed so.  If I may paraphrase, "how is any agent,
human or otherwise, to perceive the relationship
between two (?or more?) elements in an HTML document ?".

Should we re-consider the r\^ole of "rel" ?

Philip Taylor