the issue that I was trying to raise with my previous e-mail is if the authoring tool modifies invalid or inaccesible markup, server-side directives and other "place holders" might be considered invalid or inaccessible and therefore removed. Thus potentially causing a problem for authors who are not markup language savvy. --wendy At 09:59 AM 4/22/99 , you wrote: >WC:: "...place-holding elements that are not defined anywhere fit into >the picture?" > >WL: Although this is an important point it is difficult to imagine it >being addressed in an authoring tool, it's sort of like the illegitimate >ALT="text" problem in that the tool that could recognize that "insert >description here" is different from "picture of my dog, Shea" would make >us all obsolete. Trying to force the templates to spot unmodified >place-holders is a nice idea but... E.g., in HotDog when you try to >save a templated file without replacing "enter title here" you get a >gentle nudge (after all the title of your web site could be "enter title >here"!) but of course not all template makers are going to furnish such >facilities. > > >-- >Love. > ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE >http://dicomp.pair.com >Received on Thursday, 22 April 1999 13:07:25 GMT
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