- From: David Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 21:16:24 -0500
- To: Martin Bryan <mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com>, bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM (Jon Bosak), w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
- Cc: bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM
At 4:00 AM 2/10/97, Martin Bryan wrote: >Behaviour is not up to the user, it is up to the author. It is the >author/server that has to control what happens when the link is selected by >the user. Except in rare cases the user should not be able to change the >action that selecting a link causes.This is why you must separate >presentation from behaviour. I'm sorry. Color blind users should be able to see fromthe link type that Kringle.class implements a "pop-up-list" instead of failing to see Green text on a red background when they have equal brightness. Similarly it may help a blind user to see a series of hierarchically organized links instead of an animated display of shuffling cards. Similarly, it may help a web-walker to see that two pages are connected by a link rather than having to execute a java script in a "sandbox area" and trap calls to AppletContext.showDocument(). We need to be able to specify behavior, but we need not be ruled by our need to specify behavior. >This would be better called Link Action. Traversal is not something >non-rocket scientists understand. What most users understand by clicking on >a hotspot is that some action should take place. This is what the >behavioural side of the equation covers. I like "Link Action". It's a much less predjudicial term than traversal, and it covers the same field beautifully, as well as many things beyond that field, that traversal slights. -- David I am not a number. I am an undefined character. _________________________________________ David Durand dgd@cs.bu.edu \ david@dynamicDiagrams.com Boston University Computer Science \ Sr. Analyst http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ \ Dynamic Diagrams --------------------------------------------\ http://dynamicDiagrams.com/ MAPA: mapping for the WWW \__________________________
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