- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:45:17 -0500
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>, Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Cc: David Poehlman <poehlman1@home.com>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 01:31 AM 2001-01-31 -0500, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >Because, historically, it was a tool that the team developed for ourselves as >a convenience. (We have a handful of "comma tools - ,validate is another that >works like this, and you guessed right, it runs the page through the W3C >validator). It is a very simplistic approach - it just gives a Lynx text dump >if I recall correctly. > Not quite. It produces a slightly different structure and the difference is instructive in terms of our [currently absent] model of the structure of web content. The link footnotes are not all held to the end of a 'page.' Is an interdigitated flow of multiple concurrent streams, much as the "collated text transcript" so famous in multimedia circles today. >But if people are fascinated by the tools, I can look into making more >information about htem and how they work more easily available. I would >suggest that this thread be carried on in the site-comments list though... > That's a good point. But the above remark is GL or GL + others stuff, so I left this one here. Al >cheers > >Charles > >On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Kynn Bartlett wrote: > > At 11:26 AM 1/26/2001 , Al Gilman wrote: > >It appears the comma tool still works to produce text dumps from anything on > >the W3C. > >One can get a text version just by adding the character 'comma' and then the > >string 'text' to the tail end of the URL for which you want a text dump. > > How arcane! Do you have any idea why this is not documented in > any easy-to-find location? > > --Kynn > > > >-- >Charles McCathieNevile <http://www.w3.org/People/Charles>http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 >W3C Web Accessibility Initiative <http://www.w3.org/WAI>http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 >Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia >(or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France) >
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