- From: Charles Oppermann <charles@coppersoftware.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 13:35:29 -0700
- To: "'Web Content Guidelines'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
<< Web resource: any resource identified by a URI. Web content: any Web resource or collection of Web resources that comprises, is presented by, or otherwise becomes manifest in a user interface. Commonly occurring examples of content include hypertext documents, style sheets, multimedia presentations, Web applications and interactive user interfaces. >> Maybe this has been covered already, but what about content developed using W3C technologies (HTML, CSS, etc.) but are not referenced using a URI? For example, many client applications use such technologies in their presentation. For example, Microsoft Outlook uses HTML, CSS and the DOM for several features, including the Outlook Today page, and the Find and Organize features. The source for these features are embedded in the binary files that are part of the application. Alternately, many things are referenced via URI's, XML schemas, and Microsoft Word and PowerPoint documents. SOAP-based web services are also referenced via URI. It seems to me that saying that anything referenced by a URI is covered by this document would make it impossibly generic. Again, apologies if this has been discussed already. -Charles -----Original Message----- From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Jason White Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 6:36 PM To: Web Content Guidelines Subject: Definition of "content" and related terms At last week's meeting I undertook to formulate and propose the following definitions: Web resource: any resource identified by a URI. Web content: any Web resource or collection of Web resources that comprises, is presented by, or otherwise becomes manifest in a user interface. Commonly occurring examples of content include hypertext documents, style sheets, multimedia presentations, Web applications and interactive user interfaces. See also "element content", "text content", "non-text content". (I think we already have definitions of the terms mentioned in the above cross-references). As a slight modification to the first sentence of the definition we could write: Any Web resource or collection of Web resources that comprises, is presented by, affects the behaviour of or otherwise becomes manifest in a user interface. Note the added reference to "behaviour", which may or may not serve to clarify the definition. Other modifications are possible.
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