- From: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 05:54:24 -0800
- To: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 11:32 PM 10/28/00 -0400, Al Gilman wrote:
>The art of writing captures and conveys more than does the science of grammar.
Hoo sofa king Ray! Al uses this sentence for our self-reflexive
elucidation/education.
AG:: "However, I am inclined to expect. with Kynn, that the alternative
where the people make more of the transformation decisions manually up
front will work out better in practice. Unless, of course, they think that
they have thought of everything and nothing therefore has to be left
flexible...
WL: And our 'disagreement' is rooted in our life experiences with the
real-world expectations concerning the last clause: "mother knows best" is
so strongly colored by the "artistic" prejudices of many authors that the
reins must be held taut. Unless, of course, the "people" referred to are
the users rather than the authors whose tender mercies got us here in the
first place.
AG:: "Commercial competition sets a higher standard for graceful results."
WL: This would be true if the competition were "graceful-result-outcome"
oriented. More often the aim is proprietary exclusivity. It is our great
good fortune that Tim didn't patent the Web!
Enough dour pessimism. We can bring Scott in and 'splain it to us why we're
better off in the hands of benignly-motivated authors who seek only to make
the dark things clear rather than...
--
Love.
ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE
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