- From: Charles McCathie Nevile <charlesn@srl.rmit.EDU.AU>
- Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 07:37:59 +1100 (EST)
- To: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- cc: A.Flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk, WAI Guidelines List <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
LAYER I agree with you. For EMBED, the problem is that there is no replacement prior to HTML 4.0 (I may be wrong on this. Anyone?) I would recommend that EMBED only be used within the content of an OBJECT (much as I recommend IMG be used, although nobody seems to buy this. It may be more of an option for AU though.) since it provides a mechanism which is widely supported, although non-standard. This goes back to the 'where possible' provisions. It is not possible to provide legacy browsers with an EMBED which is W3C recommended. This does not mean that it is not possible to provide the functionality in an accessible way, which is the ultimate goal. Just that the non-W3C technology should not be used as the primary means - it is a kluge, and where it can be replaced (eg by using it as content of an OBJECT, then using CSS display:none if possible (I am thinking out loud here and don't know if that works)) an appropriate system must be recommended by the guidelines. This is one of those tricky problems that goes to the heart of the matter. Arewe ready to discuss this on the call, or is there other agenda material? Charles McCathieNevile On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Jon Gunderson wrote: > I just think there should be explicit statements that LAYER and EMBED > elements should not be used in designing WWW pages. > Jon > > 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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