Re: New Sectioning for the PA guidelines

I agree that the current sectioning may be improved.
It is quite difficult to tell from te titles of the sections 
what they are about.

Daniel Dardailler suggested:

A Descriptive information
B Structure/Navigation 

I think the division and what to put in each is OK,
but I don't like the term "Descriptive information".
This is because e.g., alt text doesn't describe the image
but replaces its function. Also information is too general,
structure is also information.

Maybe media-independent content 
or "HTMLization of all content" may be better titles for A.

All media understand HTML, but for any other technology
there is some media/configuration where it doesn't show.
E.g, images are not always displayed so you need to hard 
code in the HTML itself the function of the image. 

The distinction between content and structure is that 
structure is more global and has to do with the 
organization of content and thus with navigation.
(like with meta information, the distinction is not perfect, 
but I think we are getting to something clearer 
than before.)

I am quite happy with Structure/navigation 
as a title for B.

Nir Dagan                            
Assistant Professor of Economics      
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona (Spain)

email: nir.dagan@econ.upf.es
http://www.econ.upf.es/%7Edagan/

Received on Thursday, 6 August 1998 10:48:24 UTC