- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 05:31:46 -0500 (EST)
- To: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>
- cc: Steven McCaffrey <SMCCAFFR@MAIL.NYSED.GOV>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
I like the idea of splitting things up in bigger chunks first - documents, multimedia, applications - and then in that bit getting into what is general across them, and what is particular to a given language... After all there are also plenty of people who DO know what language they are using. We need to figure out how to have that cake both ways... Chaals On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Sean B. Palmer wrote: > Do I go to the HTML, XML, SVG, etc techniques document? > If I don't even know what these languages are and have never > seen examples of these how will I know which link to choose? > What level of knowledge is assumed? This is why I like William's terse version [1] so much. It's better integrated than the current draft, and yet it carries less information. A HyperLink is a link to much more information... and by letting people choose the parts they want to cogitate, rather than setting it all out and having people skip bits, you get mroe value out of it. We have guidelines... those are the bare backbones. Then we have checkpoints... those are still essential. But then we have optional bits: [background] [reasoning] [techniques] and so on, and all of these should be linked, rather than concisified and crammed into a small bit of space on the document. [1] http://rdf.pair.com/xguide.htm -- Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer @prefix : <http://webns.net/roughterms/> . [ :name "Sean B. Palmer" ] :hasHomepage <http://infomesh.net/sbp/> . -- 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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