- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 19:53:05 -0700
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charlesn@sunrise.srl.rmit.edu.au>
- Cc: WAI GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>, WAI <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 12:01 p.m. 10/01/98 +1000, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >But perhaps there should be a guideline about this: >Guideline: Where a link points to a resource in a 'format which is not a w3c >recommendation (eg pdf, zip, powerpoint etc - what is the position of >plain text here?)' then it should be made clear in the text (preferably) >of, or (else) near the link what kind of a resource is being pointed to. >[p2/3?] The TYPE attribute should also be used for non-HTML links too. Expanded example: This document is available in several formats: <A href="mydoc.htm">HTML version</A>, <A HREF="mydoc.rtf" TYPE="application/rtf">Rich Text Format (Priamrily for Microsoft Word processors)</A>, <A HREF="mydoc.pdf" TYPE="application/pdf">PDF-Portable Document or Acrobat format, which requires</A> the <A HREF="http://www.adobe.com/acrobat/">the acrobat reader, which can be downloaded free for many platforms</A>. This allows a clever user agent (of which none currently exist, mind you) to flag selected links that are not supported or perhaps are set to be flagged by user preferences. Sample rendering: This document is available in several formats: _HTML version_, _Rich Text Format_ [Unsupported], _PDF-Portable Document or Acrobat format which requires_ [External viewer] the _the acrobat reader, which can be downloaded free for many platforms_. -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://www.idyllmtn.com/~kynn/ Chief Technologist & Co-Owner, Idyll Mountain Internet; Fullerton, California Enroll now for my online stylesheets (CSS) class! http://www.hwg.org/classes/ The voice of the future? http://www.hwg.org/opcenter/w3c/voicebrowsers.html
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