- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 08:25:00 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
The "rel=dlink" is intended to used to provide a "hide" and "show" option in the UA for people who may hard code D-Links during the transitory phase to longdesc. There is also a problem in OBJECT, since it does not have a LONGDESC attribute. Jon At 11:57 AM 6/3/1998 METDST, you wrote: >There is still the problem that the UA cannot tell >to which image the link refers to. Assume you have two >D-links in your document and five images. What does the UA do >with that? How does it know to which images the links refer to? > >The only usage that I can see is to have an option for the user to set >"hide D-links" or "show D-links", but then it can be done with longdesc. > >The UA cannot decide on its own image by image whether to get rid of >one of them (longdesc or D-link) since it wouldn't know which D-link is >related to which image. > >Authors should not use both longdesc and D-link simultaneosly. > >Regards, >Nir Dagan >http://www.econ.upf.es/%7Edagan/ > > >> >> >> > longdesc is the modern D-link, look no further. >> > Its only disadvantage is that it is not supported yet, >> > but so is rel="description". >> >> The support for rel (or class) and longdesc go together, it's not >> about replacing one with the other. >> >> rel=description, or class=description, are meant to provide UA a way >> to formally identify a dlink as such, so that when both a longdesc and >> a dlink A are provided by the author, the UA can get rid of one of >> them. >> >> >> >> > > Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: 217-244-5870 Fax: 217-333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund http://www.als.uiuc.edu/InfoTechAccess
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