- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:18:24 -0500 (EST)
- To: WAI GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Christoph Päper wrote: > >*Charles McCathieNevile*: >> On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Christoph Päper wrote: >> >>>a author should be able to help it out---outside the >>>mark-up. It's quite similar to automatic hyphenation. >> >> Exactly. The main point of my mail was to suggest that we could specify >> what is required in existing CSS, which seems like a big win. > >You missed my point. Regardless of ways of implementation, I don't want to >clutter my pages with [stuff] Oh. Me neither. >but I'm willing to write > > <abbr>e. g.</abbr> >and the hope that browsers that should do so, replace it automatically. Well, that's something. As it happens, browsers don't seem to do it. You could write a script that post-processed your pages, to turn what you are prepared to write into what users can actually get value from in the software they have available. I believe that a design principle here is that tings should be self-contained - the more special-magic processing you need to do on a given element, the less happy the HTML group is. Which is why the slightly verbose stuff seems to get there. Personally I avoid touching source code if at all possible, since decent tools (the very few) get it right, whereas I make typos and find it hard to read. Which strongly colours the way I see verbose source code as an issue. But I claim that this puts me in touch with the masses and what they really care about... cheers Chaals
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