- From: T. V. Raman <raman@Adobe.COM>
- Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 07:29:50 -0700
- To: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- Cc: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>, connolly@w3.org, html-future@w3.org
Dave Raggett writes: > > In trying to write a first cut at a briefing package I am hoping > to establish a basic vision that allows for the clean composition > of each tag set, and a good story on accessibility and > internationalization. Any suggestions for this would be > very Clean composibility of tagsets would go a long way in enabling clean accessibility. One of the reasons for the tag soup on the WWW is that we gave the WWW a simple assembly language with a dozen or so operators, and guess what, the people on the WWW wrote lots of assembly language documents (er programs). Sebastian (who originated this thread) and myself both come from the TeX/LaTeX world, and the same thing happens there-- if people are allowed to write raw TeX the result is a set of documents that are a complete abomination in terms of structure-- and consequently disastrous for accessibility. On the other hand, the TeX world --at least via systems like LaTeX did come up with a semi-workable solution for reusable and composible tagsets which is what restored a level of sanity. > much appreciated at this early stage. In short I think building in the need for a good reusable and repurposable design that also enables accessibility from the ground up is realy worth shooting for in the briefing package. > > Regards, > > -- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett > phone: +44 122 578 2984 (or 2521) +44 385 320 444 (gsm mobile) > World Wide Web Consortium (on assignment from HP Labs) -- Best Regards, --raman Adobe Systems Tel: 1 (408) 536 3945 (W14-612) Advanced Technology Group Fax: 1 (408) 537 4042 (W14 129) 345 Park Avenue Email: raman@adobe.com San Jose , CA 95110 -2704 Email: raman@cs.cornell.edu http://labrador.corp.adobe.com/~raman/ (Adobe Intranet) http://cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/raman.html (Cornell) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are my own and in no way should be taken as representative of my employer, Adobe Systems Inc. ____________________________________________________________
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