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Re: Markup Challenge: aaronsw.com

From: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:58:15 -0600
Cc: <www-archive@w3.org>
To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Message-Id: <BFF182B6-2CA0-11D7-A606-0003936780B2@aaronsw.com>

> Classes and IDs are also free of any defined semantics.
>> Using well-known-classes [...]
> There is no such thing as a well known class. Any tool that makes
> assumptions about classes is broken.

Not if there's a profile attribute on the <head> it recognizes.

>>> <div class="content"><div id="main"> At least one of those <div>s
>>> is redundant, if not both.
>> content indicates the portion of the document that is relatively 
>> unique
>> (not part of the banner/head or the footer).
> Says who? It could equally well delimit a span containing the protein
> content of a recipe.

Says my profile (to be written).

> Ok, so the image does need reasonably alternate text. I would suggest:
>
>    alt="There was an illustration in the Times today, depicting the
>    corner of a building with a single vertically sliding window, open,
>    with two hands having apparently just thrust a two-drawer file
>    cabinet out of the building. The file cabinet is upside down and
>    its bottom drawer is open, with papers and files falling out."
>
> The important thing to note is that the image is conveying the
> delightful illustration in this case, it is not conveying simply "a
> file cabinet being thrown out the window".

The alternative text is supposed to convey the same information as the 
picture, no? I don't see how people seeing the picture would be able to 
tell it was an illustration in the Times.

> your first paragraph looks like: "A file cabinet being thrown out the
> windowJon Keegan, New York Times". (Yes, that's "windowJon".)

Ta. Fixed.

> The "(left)" part of the paragraph should probably be changed, too,
> [...] Possibly a better solution would be to make the
> text "delightful illustration" link to the image using a fragment
> identifier.

Ta. Fixed.

> Basically, we need more semantics.

Always.
-- 
Aaron Swartz [http://www.aaronsw.com/]
Received on Monday, 20 January 2003 12:58:17 GMT

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