Appendix E updated [was Re: Appendix E styling action item.]

Hi All,

In order to get the draft agenda out, I went ahead and did the edit/update 
to the new styling section of Appendix E [1].  (The revision history of 
this version now reflects today, 9/28.)

-Lofton.

[1] http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/WG/2006/wai-appendix-V3.html


At 09:24 AM 9/27/2006 -0600, Lofton Henderson wrote:
>Stuart & I discussed and are happy with this wording.  Comments?  Then I 
>suggest Thierry add it to Appendix E, and we point Al to appendix E for 
>his final endorsement.
>
>[[[
>E.4 Styling
>
>WebCGM 2.0 supports transient, display-time control of a number of display 
>properties of objects. These can be manipulated via the WebCGM DOM, and 
>are also available via the XCF mechanism. Although WebCGM does not support 
>@@conventional styling@@, an (external) XCF functions similarly to an 
>external style sheet. For improved accessibility, WebCGM 2.0 
>implementations should provide some user control of rendering. Use of 
>these mechanisms partially supports the recommendations of [WCAG10], 
>Checkpoint 3.3 and [UAAG10], Guideline 4.
>]]]
>
>Thierry:  I suggest to link "@@conventional styling@@" to 
>http://www.w3.org/Style/ (and remove the @@ brackets, of course).
>
>The other links (last sentence) are defined here:
>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webcgm-wg/2006Sep/0082
>
>Note that [WCAG10] and [UAAG10] point into our references sections (in 
>Ch.1, Introduction), which will need new references for them.
>
>Question (to answer before PR text).  Would WCAG10 and UAAG10 be 
>Informative References or Normative References?
>
>Strictly speaking, I would guess "informative" in this WebCGM version, as 
>the references are in an informative appendix.  On the other hand, if it 
>is conventional to put them in Normative References, I'm okay with that also.
>
>-Lofton.
>
>
>>Galt, Stuart A wrote:
>>>Hello all,
>>>
>>>Here is a cut at the paragraph talking about style properties.
>>>     E.4 Styling
>>>WebCGM 2.0 supports transient, display-time control of a number of 
>>>display properties of objects. These can be manipulated via the WebCGM 
>>>DOM, and are also available via the XCF mechanism. An adaptive WebCGM 
>>>2.0 viewer should provide some user control of rendering, and in a 
>>>sense, an (external) XCF could function similarly to an external style 
>>>sheet. These mechanisms should be used to at least partially realize the 
>>>recommendations of [WCAG10 
>>><http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/WG/2006/WebCGM20-Intro.html#WCAG10>], 
>>>Checkpoint 3.3 <http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/#tech-style-sheets> and 
>>>[UAAG10 
>>><http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/WG/2006/WebCGM20-Intro.html#UAAG10>], 
>>>Guideline 4 
>>><http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-USERAGENT/guidelines.html#gl-user-control-styles>.
>>>  Any comments?
>>>
>>>--
>>>Stuart Galt
>>>SGML Resource Group
>>>stuart.a.galt@boeing.com
>>>(206) 544-3656
>>
>>
>>--
>>Thierry Michel
>>W3C