- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 14:08:18 -0000
- To: "Anne Pemberton" <apembert@crosslink.net>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> Telling me that something that is perfectly well done in HTML should > be moved out of HTML where it doesn't work very well anyway, > isn't changing my mind one bit. Among other problems, you are > introducing the great chance of errors by creating two sets of code. > The idea that those two codes are needed because the visual > presentation "must" be separate from the basic document, makes no > sense at all. If you look at the RDF data models, you'll see the reason: if the Semantic Web is going to be a machine processable Web of languages relying on triplets to eventually lead to proof validation, attaching behaviours to any form of semantic processable data on the client side is going to cause problems. The schema layer in the RDF model isn't set up to provide behavioural display assertion; simply because that task is impossible. By attaching behaviours to Semantics that are expected to be recognized and displayed properly by default is wrong, and you need to back up the proprietary assertion you are trying to make with some type of schema. At the moment there is no form of schema available to do this, which is why we have Cascading Style Sheet languages to help us cope in the meantime. As for my email address crashing your email program, simply use sean@wapdesign.org.uk in the To or CC line. Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer http://xhtml.waptechinfo.com/swr/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/ "Perhaps, but let's not get bogged down in semantics." - Homer J. Simpson, BABF07.
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