- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 09:35:11 -0800
- To: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Cc: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>, WAI GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 07:22 PM 12/27/2000 , Al Gilman wrote: >But we need to hear (why) from the people who felt that expanding in all cases >was onerous. Seems like doing a search and replace to proliferate the >expansion would not be that bad. It's not really all that bad at all, I agree. It does result in an increase in file size, which can be very difficult to cope with in some browsing situations. >Certainly, the guideline here expects intelligence from the UA that the format >specifications generally do not provide. Agreed! Question, what do the UAAG say about this issue? I haven't looked recently. Perhaps this is entirely a UAAG issue and not a WCAG issue at all. >The issue about how burdensome it is to expand all instances means GL has a >stake. Only if you believe that WCAG WG should concern itself with how burdensome something is. :) [I happen to believe we should, but I sometimes feel like I'm in the minority on that one.] --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com/ Sr. Engineering Project Leader, Reef-Edapta http://www.reef.com/ Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://www.idyllmtn.com/ Contributor, Special Edition Using XHTML http://kynn.com/+seuxhtml Unofficial Section 508 Checklist http://kynn.com/+section508
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