- From: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 16:21:24 -0500
- To: "HTML WG (public-html@w3.org)" <public-html@w3.org>
On 11/24/2012 03:03 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > Hi Robin, > > Could you provide some guidance on how to read the report and/or a > quantitative summary of its findings? I am having a hard time > determining from the raw data which aspects of the HTML specification > are not paving the cow paths. > > For example, for an entry like this (quoted with its original styling): > > >> /Projects/html/scratch/dataset/html/index-1115.html >> >> Text size: navigation arrow increase decrease | print page >> Text size: increase navigation arrow decrease | print page > > What is this telling me about what happened in the markup, and what > conclusion should I draw from this? Searching for that text, I came across the following page that contains what appears to be a match: http://www.commbank.com.au/ Specifically, the full markup looks like this: <p><font color="#5D537A">Text size:</font> <img src="/images/global/navArrowOrange.gif" width="5" height="8" alt="navigation arrow" /> <a href="#" onclick="TextSize.increase();"><font color="#5D537A">increase</font></a> <img src="/images/global/navArrowOrange.gif" width="5" height="8" alt="navigation arrow" /> <a href="#" onclick="TextSize.decrease();"><font color="#5D537A">decrease</font></a> <span>|</span> <a href="javascript:window.print();"><font color="#5D537A">print page</font></a></p> Like you, I'm not sure what conclusion to draw from this, but if there are portions of the HTML5 specification that are indeed controversial, I would hope that members of the working group would open/reopen bug reports, and that the editors would seek to adopt text that is less objectionable. > Regards, > Maciej - Sam Ruby > On Nov 23, 2012, at 7:47 AM, Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org > <mailto:robin@w3.org>> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> as indicated in the CfC caveat for the publication of the HTML CR, in >> the discussion of the AltTech specification with its objection, and, >> you know, ISSUE-31, there is some amount of disagreement about the >> advice to be given about our poor old alt attribute. >> >> In order to get a feel for how it was actually used in the wild, I >> quickly generated a usage report to see if we could make some useful >> inferences. I don't claim that it's a solution, or that it is decisive >> data, but it might help. >> >> You can read more at: http://htmlwg.org/alt-usage/. >> >> From looking at the inline variant of the report, my sense is that the >> HTML specification as currently drafted is not paving the cow paths. >> >> Thoughts, suggestions for improvements, welcome. >> >> -- >> Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon >> >
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