- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:53:45 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Brian Smith wrote: > > If there was an <advert> element [or role='advertisement'] or > equivalent, then its use would quickly become a mandatory accessibility > requirement, and its use would pretty much be required by any site built > by anybody with any money to lose. Similarly, any jurisdiction with > "truth in advertising" laws would also require the use of such a > construct. I think, with all due respect, that this is a very naiive belief. I think James' earlier comment is much more likely to be true. > Ian, in your analysis of existing web content, did you find many > instances of advertising? It doesn't take an analysis to know that advertising is common on the Web. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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