- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:38:43 +0200
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Cc: John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>, public-html-a11y@w3.org
Sam Ruby, Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:57:05 -0400: > On 09/17/2012 08:07 PM, John Foliot wrote: >> Sam Ruby wrote: > I can't help but wonder if we would have been done by now if but a > small fraction of the effort that was put into "instating longdesc" > focused instead on developing a solution to the "long description" > need that browser vendors are willing to implement. > > I'll go further, and say that the most optimistic estimates have > HTML5 going to REC in 2014, and if we could find a way to produce a > collective "we" instead of continuing to refer to a collective "you" > that a comprehensive solution could be designed by the early next > year and deployed and tested for interoperability by year end and > make it in time for HTML5. +1 Sounds very positive. My 2 cents are: If an effort in this direction could be established, then I think we should try it. Do the browsers vendors know what they are willing to implement? Do you have an idea yourself? I guess some would ask for the principles/goals first. > Taking my co-chair hat off, I can confidently state that that's a > solution that IBM would endorse. -- leif halvard silli
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