- From: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 20:54:32 -0800
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Persevere!
Although Gregg didn't seem too enchanted with the word, I'd like to
recommend it quite seriously for a couple of reasons: it expresses what we
want - for content/semantics/meaning/intent/+ to survive all manner of
transformation/repurposing/+; it is a word sure to be distinct and not
carrying much baggage of either technology or particular everyday
connotations, as "environment" and "graceful transformation" and "data
model" seem to.
That "content" (or whatever we choose to call the underlying communication
intended) persevere through being rendered in any language via anything
from a refreshable braille display to a cell phone screen, in other words
in a device-independent manner, is what we expect.
Our information should *persevere*.
In this case the fact that we must explain what this means is a "Good
Thing" because we aren't trying to overcome some already-widely-held notion
of what the word means in this and other contexts.
Or maybe I'm just too weird for prime time?
--
Love.
ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE
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