RE: Failure due to generating markup using document.write() or ...

At 18:09 24/04/2006, Gregg Vanderheiden wrote:
>Hi Christophe
>
>I'm not sure I understand your email
>
>1) What action are you recommending?

At the moment, it looks like we need to drop this failure.

>2) What does  " But the current failure has not been accepted, eventually."
>mean?

Acceptance depended on whether we could find accessible and inaccessible 
ways of using document.write(). The way the title is phrased suggests that 
using document.write() is a problem in general (unparsed content), but it 
turns out that it may only be a problem if you use it to generate content 
that fails the guidelines (e.g. ambiguous document structure). We could 
have a "Failure due to using document.write() or document.writeln() to 
generate an ambiguous document structure", but that would be just a 
reiteration of SC 4.1.1 with the addition of JavaScript.

Regards,

Christophe


>Thanks
>
>Gregg
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: public-wcag-teama-request@w3.org
>[mailto:public-wcag-teama-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Christophe Strobbe
>Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 8:48 AM
>To: public-wcag-teama@w3.org
>Subject: Failure due to generating markup using document.write() or ...
>
>
>
>In 4.1.2 we have a "Failure due to generating markup using document.write()
>or document.writeln() to write unparsed content" (previous name: "Failure
>due to generating markup using methods for writing unparsed content").
>Apparently, document.write() does not cause problems as long as the html
>that is inserted is well-formed and semantically correct. There are problems
>when you use client-side script to generate HTML that doesn't meet the
>guidelines in some way, or modifying good HTML code in a way so that it no
>longer meets the guidelines. This is very general, unless you create one
>such (scripting) failure for every success criterion where it is applicable.
>But the current failure has not been accepted, eventually.
>
>Regards,
>
>Christophe
>
>
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Christophe Strobbe
K.U.Leuven - Departement of Electrical Engineering - Research Group on 
Document Architectures
Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 - 3001 Leuven-Heverlee - BELGIUM
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