- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 01:31:01 -0500 (EST)
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- cc: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>, David Poehlman <poehlman1@home.com>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Because, historically, it was a tool that the team developed for ourselves as a convenience. (We have a handful of "comma tools - ,validate is another that works like this, and you guessed right, it runs the page through the W3C validator). It is a very simplistic approach - it just gives a Lynx text dump if I recall correctly. But if people are fascinated by the tools, I can look into making more information about htem and how they work more easily available. I would suggest that this thread be carried on in the site-comments list though... cheers Charles On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Kynn Bartlett wrote: At 11:26 AM 1/26/2001 , Al Gilman wrote: >It appears the comma tool still works to produce text dumps from anything on >the W3C. >One can get a text version just by adding the character 'comma' and then the >string 'text' to the tail end of the URL for which you want a text dump. How arcane! Do you have any idea why this is not documented in any easy-to-find location? --Kynn -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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