- From: Nir Dagan <nir@nirdagan.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 05:49:21 GMT
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
I would like to re-suggest an old proposal of John T. Whelan: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/1998JulSep/0209.html concerning ASCII art. It was to include it with an OBJECT (or anchor) as a separate file with a mime type text/x-ascii-art. The question what MIME type to use is related to what should be the mimetypes of vector graphics written in XML applications. (I.e., should it be text/xml or image/xml; likewise maybe image/plain is appropriate for ascii art.) As new mime types for these vector graphic formats will be recommended at some point, the ascii art type may be discussed at the same opportunity at the appropriate W3C working group. In my view this makes more sense than the example in the techniques doc. <SPAN class="smile" title="smiley in ascii art">:-)</SPAN> As this example assumes that the browser assigns semantics to class=smile. Nir Dagan, Ph.D. http://www.nirdagan.com mailto:nir@nirdagan.com "There is nothing quite so practical as a good theory." -- A. Einstein
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