- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 11:10:21 +1000 (AEST)
- To: WAI Working Group <w3c-wai-wg@w3.org>
On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Daniel Dardailler wrote: > > The default media in the other case should probably be defined as > "current". > > I agree, and also think that clarification of this issue in the spec is necessary. In the published draft, as part of the exposition of the LINK element, there is already an example similar to the following: <LINK href="document.ps" rel="alternate" media="print"> which shows that MEDIA is of general application and not confined merely to style sheets. The use of CLASS to indicate the type of dictionary would be more precise than relying on the MEDIA attribute: <link href="dictionary.html" rel="dictionary" class="abbreviation"> provided that separate classes are defined so that the user agent can decide whether to load the dictionary or not in any given instance. However, what is the advantage of this strategy as compared with defining separate link types for each kind of dictionary? An abbreviation dictionary can be used not only by a speech synthesizer, but also as a means of establishing hypertext links between every occurrence of an abbreviation and its expansion. Thus, we should define different types of dictionaries rather than relying on the media attribute. The question which remains is thus whether CLASS or REL should carry the designation of the dictionary type.
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