- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 22:08:26 -0500
- To: preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com
- Cc: cwilso@microsoft.com, www-style@w3.org
>| For such cases, people might be *far* better off using PDF or RTF, or >| defining a tag set all of their own, with associated stylesheets. They >| could define: <FONT>, <COLOR>, <MARQUEE>, or whatever they want. >--- > >But if the DTD included tags like product-id, product-vendor, >product-price, etc., then indexing tools could pick up the commercial >parts of the advertisement and build an appropriate super catalog of the >net, for instance. So, I don't think PDF or RTF would be a better >choice - most advertisers want their data accessible andmeaningful >tagging is the key to intelligent accessibility. Fine, I agree. I guess my real point is that if they are *only* concerned about display, they can use PDF or RTF, or whatever. If arbitrary tag sets were allowed, they could *choose* how to represent their tagged data.
Received on Thursday, 15 February 1996 22:10:03 UTC