Re: July 3 Meeting

So the next question is:

Is this formal definition of a block what the average human looking at a 
page perceives as a block?

It's what's perceived as a block that's revelant to blocks that are "too long".

Also, as long as people use tables for layout,  we still need rules that 
apply there.


Len

At 08:16 AM 7/2/00 -0400, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
>HTML 4 is designed to work with CSS2. And CSS2 provides an example default
>style sheet for HTML that defines exactly what is a block (it can also be
>gleaned from teh DTD, although that's a slower process.) Essentially certain
>types of element are described as a block element (p, h1..hn, lists and a
>couple of others). In a working sense it is the innermost block that is
>relevant - the lowest node of the document tree that is a block, since those
>above it in the tree are broken up already.
>
>Charles McCN
>
>Charles McCN
>
>On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Leonard R. Kasday wrote:
>
>   Our next teleconfernce will be
>
>   Mondays, 10:00-11:30 Eastern USA Time (GMT -05:00) on the MIT bridge (+1
>   617-258-7910).
>
>
>   Topics:
>
>   1.  We've been talking about how long a block should be, but what is a
>   block?  Lets discuss some more, starting with Michael's proposal at
>   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-er-ig/2000Jun/0062.html
>   (thanks Michael!)
>
>   2. How shall we track issues, including cross group issues? One 
> possibility
>   is to use W3C's ETA system.  There was a section set up for WAI ER
>
>   http://cgi.w3.org/ETA/issuesList.php3/wai/ER/
>
>   Although we haven't used it yet.   Those of you who have tried it... 
> please
>   see what you think.  If you want to try it out you can add yourself as a
>   contact at 
> http://cgi.w3.org/ETA/contacts.php3/wai/ER/?editing=1&nextAction=add
>
>   (This requires member access to w3c).
>
>   Len
>   --
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>   Department of Electrical Engineering
>   Temple University 423 Ritter Annex, Philadelphia, PA 19122
>
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>
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>
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>
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Institute on Disabilities/UAP, and
Department of Electrical Engineering
Temple University 423 Ritter Annex, Philadelphia, PA 19122

kasday@acm.org
http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday

(215) 204-2247 (voice)  (800) 750-7428 (TTY)

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