Re: meeting tomorrow - reminder

William, 

this is one of the "sample implementations" that I we should do. In fact it
is fairly close to the case of a "major league authoring tool" - it is a
stated goal of the Mozilla Editor project, whose work will be the basis of
Netscape 5 Composer, to produce a tool that saves as HTNML without the author
having to know anything about HTML or the Web. From the other side, Office
2000 allows one to save in a kind of XML and I believe use it as a native
format. Word has been able to deal with HTML documents as a native format for
several releases. So I think the urgency of focussing on this kind of product
in particular is less than on some products for which it is not quite so
obvious - hence the image editor example from some months ago, and this
week's multimedia editor example.

I will probably focus next on a groupware system - there are a large number
of these particularly in educational settings, as well as systems such as
Notes. This sort of software probably also has the requirements which
standard word processing and spreadasheet applications have that are seen as
different from "regualr HTML authoring tools" so I think we will further
reduce the amount of specific work that has to be done on generating
techniques for word processors.

As always, please offer your suggestions for techniques, either as single
checkpoint techniques or for sample implementations.

cheers

Charles McCN


On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, William Loughborough wrote:

  Along with these regrets I would like to call attention to a mindset
  exam in connection with the AU guidelines/checkpoints/techniques: we are
  almost entirely attending to these insofar as they deal with a major
  league authoring tool and there should be a probably separate addressing
  to the developers who would make it surpassingly simple to put stuff on
  the Web without any knowledge of anything on the part of the publisher.
  
  It is hard to conceive of a word processor that attends to all our
  urgings about making all docs deal with accessibility issues, etc. It is
  difficult to imagine that a graphics program will do much if anything
  and if we could hit the ALT="text" base pretty hard it might be all we
  can hope for. 
  
  Anyway, I feel that we've attended too little to this area so perhaps
  some suggestions about content covering *just* the "save as HTML"
  problem would prove fruitful.
  
  -- 
  Love.
              ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE
  http://dicomp.pair.com
  

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