- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 13:01:02 -0700
- To: Cynthia Shelly <cyns@whatuwant.net>
- Cc: "'love26@gorge.net'" <love26@gorge.net>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
At 12:02 PM 10/26/2000 , Cynthia Shelly wrote: >As I have said before, customized user interfaces based on user-selected preferences are not pie in the sky. They can be built with today's technologies. It's not even hard. > * put your content in a database (or XML) > * build several templates, one for each interface you want to expose > * use a form to gather user preferences > * use client or server script to save those preferences to a cookie (or database record indexed by a cookie) > * use server script to select the appropriate template based on the saved preferences > * use server script (or XSLT if you like) to assemble a page combining the content from the database with presentation from the selected template. > * put a link to the preference-gathering form somewhere visible, so users can change the preferences when they want to. Cynthia is correct. This can be done now, as she describes it. (Actually, there are a few extra steps in there but I am reluctant to say a lot more as they are part of Edapta's product strategy and competitive advantage! :) ) > I'm guessing that a lot of Edapta's value-add is in determining the set of preferences (Kynn, feel free to correct me). Mmmmaybe. :) Okay, you got me on that one. --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com/ Director of Accessibility, Edapta http://www.edapta.com/ Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://www.idyllmtn.com/ AWARE Center Director http://www.awarecenter.org/ What's on my bookshelf? http://kynn.com/books/
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