- From: Sean Hayes <Sean.Hayes@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:08:31 +0100
- To: Loretta Guarino Reid <lorettaguarino@google.com>, Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- CC: "w3c-wai-gl@w3.org" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Not necessarily, the DOM is not the only way of making it programmatically available. -----Original Message----- From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Loretta Guarino Reid Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 6:05 PM To: Christophe Strobbe Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org Subject: Re: CSS generated content and document tree That seems like a compelling argument for making it a failure to add non-decorative content via CSS. Loretta On 4/20/07, Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be> wrote: > > Hi, > > In yesterday's telecon, there was a discussion about whether > CSS-generated content (especially if it is not purely decorative) > should be a failure or not. > In the section on "Generated content, automatic numbering, and lists" > of the current last call working draft of CSS 2.1, I found the > following statement: "Generated content does not alter the document > tree. In particular, it is not fed back to the document language > processor (e.g., for reparsing)." > (<http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-CSS21-20061106/generate.html#content>). > The current CSS 2 specification says the same thing > (<http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/generate.html#content>; just before section 12.3). > This seems to me an important difference with DOM scripts that add > content, and we should keep this in mind in future discussions. > > Best regards, > > Christophe > > > -- > Christophe Strobbe > K.U.Leuven - Departement of Electrical Engineering - Research Group > on Document Architectures > Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 - 3001 Leuven-Heverlee - BELGIUM > tel: +32 16 32 85 51 > http://www.docarch.be/ > > > Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm > > >
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