- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:54:49 +0200
On Dec 21, 2006, at 05:21, Karl Dubost wrote: > Le 21 d?c. 2006 ? 00:23, Henri Sivonen a ?crit : >> Actually, structure is communicated to people using presentation. >> Presentation isn't just about attractiveness. > > Lao Niu puts his two fingers in the eyes of Henri in a Full contact > move. Henri is blind. Henri is trying to kick the legs, and Lao Niu > is putting two sharp sticks in Henri's ears. Henri is desperate > trying to read the old master tales. That was uncalled for. The point is that there are limited ways of communicating data to humans. Content needs to be *presented* on visual, aural or tactile media in practice. Olfactory and gustative media would have hopelessly bad data transfer rates, so it isn't practical to design for them. For human consumers of content, practical device and media independence is achieved when there are reasonable presentations for realistically applicable media. Moreover, it is just natural that authors want to *optimize* for the visual media first with aural and tactile media coming as second and a distant third. Also, it seems to me that the usefulness of non-heuristic machine consumption of semantic roles of things like dialogs, names of vessels, biological taxonomical names, quotations, etc. has been vastly exaggerated. Therefore, I think the non-presentationalism principle shouldn't be taken too dogmatically. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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