- From: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:31:30 -0700 (PDT)
- To: "'Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis'" <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>, "'Leif Halvard Silli'" <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Cc: "'HTMLWG WG'" <public-html@w3.org>
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > > By allowing your proposed attribute to point to invisible links > without link text, I think you open it to the same problems of hidden > metadata as "longdesc". > Hi Ben, *IT's NOT* hidden metadata, it's discoverable metadata, just like microformats are discoverable metadata: I've yet to encounter a browser or web-page that renders microformat data on screen. Yet user-agents can none-the-less discover this data, and a number of browser plug-ins (such as the Operator and Tails Export extensions for firefox) allow individual users the ability to extract this discoverable metadata into a usable form they can (visually) process. @longdesc takes a URL string (often "hidden" to end users: <a href="complex_url_string.html">Click here</a>, and yes I appreciate the irony of that example), and allows users to interact with it. A browser mechanism that allowed for the discoverability and interaction with @longdesc values is all we need to render @longdesc useful to all users. > It's not clear to me how your proposal would be more palatable to the > WG than reinstating "longdesc". Currently the @longdesc Issue has been re-opened at the W3C HTML WG. JF
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