- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 19:41:07 -0500 (EST)
- To: w3c-wai-hc@w3.org (HC team)
to follow up on what Hakon Lie said: > Pawson, David writes: > > > Navigation yes - by page reference no (IMHO). Why make the > > backwards step? The on-line navigational capabilities of html > > are far superior to page based systems. > > I support this view. Structural markup has more to offer than rendered > documents. That's very true for documents which are first produced for online use and printed copies are a byproduct produced from the electronically-distributed text. That is not the only important scenario in which Web media will be used. Consider an etext scenario, where material is primarily published in print but transcribed to online media for accessibility. Here the print page number is a valuable point of reference because most people using the same text index it in that way. This is true not only of books but also periodicals. Here, the printed version is not generated from the HTML and it's not the job of CSS to get the numbers into the HTML. That is an authoring/transcribing tool job. But in the etext scenario it is still desirable to be able to support this information. I am not eager to ignore its value, if we can support it easily. -- Al
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