- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:02:26 +0100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@ncbi.ie>, foliot@wats.ca, "'Patrick H. Lauke'" <redux@splintered.co.uk>, public-html@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote: > It would be much more helpful to work from a problem description. As of > today, this page goes much more in this direction: > > http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/LongdescRetention > > ...despite the name of the page, the actual description of the problem is > solution-agnostic. I can see the limitations of a solution focused approach. The limitations of the later are exacerbated when these proposed solutions are built on the back of implementations that are not ideal in the first place. Much of this thread has helped to clear that up for me, so thanks. Personally, I guess I was on the back foot because it seemed to me that certain (what I perceive as good) accessibility features of HTML were for want of a better word - threatened. However in truth I have to consider that many of them may not be ideal implementations in the first place and could be improved. I feel conflicted about this however, as to some degree a working feature in the hand is worth two in the bush but as Chaals pointed out (cannot find the ref just now) in some ways we have a tabula rasa (in principle) where with the proper approach we can fix non-ideal implementations in the spec, as I guess we are older and wiser and can look back at how successful HTML 4 has been. Having said that (and this is my own Pavlovian response) please continue to support (if not recommend) useful features (you know the list) and let them sit alongside the shiny new improved aspects of the spec. :-) Josh
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