Re: July 3 Meeting

Well,

using the default CSS for HTML (or for that matter taking it from the
stylesheet in operation) it means that what is rendered as a block is
defined, which is probably pretty obvious to average people looking although
blocks that have blocks inside them could also be looked at in terms of what
they have - too many paragraphs (how many is that?) without any headers, etc.
That would be the approach to take to tables as well.

Cheers

Charles


On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Leonard R. Kasday wrote:

  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
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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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  http://www.temple.edu/inst_disabilities/piat/wave/
  

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W3C Web Accessibility Initiative                      http://www.w3.org/WAI
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