- From: Neil Smith <neil@comatose.freeserve.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:02:23 +0000
- To: public-tt@w3.org
I tend to agree with the NOT-STYLE comment : With that "hidden-hover" tag for example, the possibility should exist within a text stream for generic markup : But it should not actually specify the screen representation : that should be left to css. The specific CSS support is then left to the displaying device. For example some UAs may wish to render this as display:none, others as display:block. One person may set up a user-stylesheet to render hidden markup as bold, another as a particular colour (because for example they have a degree of colour blindness). Some people may not wish to see the semantic markup at all, while others may want terminology explained and displayed differently (eg the <dt> tag in HTML). These can all be handled by css without specifying the actual display type inline in the code. Cheers, Neil Smith. At 10:35 05/02/2003 +0000, you wrote: >"semantic markup vocabulary should be avoided where possible" > >It may be necessary to include markup that has semantic implications, for >example hidden text that provides definitions of terms, expansions of >acronyms etc. > >The M.D.<hidden-hover>Managing Director<\hidden-hover> of Blah corporation >today.... > >Such a tag would have a meaning to the viewer implementation yet is also in >effect converying semantic information about the text it encompases. So I >tend towards a more mechanistic view - that the tags should represent >mechanisms involved in TT delivery and display (but not STYLE :-) - not the >semantic of the text itself. So TT should perhaps support layers of text >presentation - yet not in a way that implies what those layers are for..... > >regards > >John Birch > >The views and opinions expressed are the author's own and do not necessarily >reflect the views and opinions of Screen Subtitling Systems Limited. ======================================================== VideoChat with friends online, get Freshly Toasted every day at http://www.fresh-toast.net : NetMeeting solutions for a connected world.
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