Re: Rewording of Guideline 2

How about:

"Separate content and structure information from styling information used 
for rendering"

Jon


At 06:12 PM 12/1/2000 -0500, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
>I was trying to include two ideas. One is that the "data model" needs to be
>seperable from teh "presentation model" in order to provide a diffferent
>presentation model, for example to convert to a different medium. The other,
>important idea, is that there should be presentation models provided. In
>practice, HTML includes a default presentation model that is fine for common
>types of HTML document, but many languages (for example SVG) do not have a
>very helpful default presentation model.
>
>cheers
>
>Charles
>
>On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Jon Gunderson wrote:
>
>   How about:
>
>   Create content and structure that is independent of styles used for
>   presentation
>
>   Jon
>
>
>   At 05:34 PM 11/30/2000 -0500, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
>   >I propose a slight modification:
>   >
>   >Define the structure of content, and the presentations of it, so they 
> can be
>   >independent of each other.
>   >
>   >I think Gregg's wording is definitely a move in the right direction.
>   >
>   >Charles
>   >
>   >On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Gregg Vanderheiden wrote:
>   >
>   >   The following text is a proposed rewriting of guideline 2 to make 
> it easier
>   >   to understand when read in isolation.
>   >
>   >   "Guideline 2:  Define and expose content and structure so that they are
>   >   discernable independently from presentation."
>   >
>   >   Gregg
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Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services
MC-574
College of Applied Life Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
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