- From: LBehrens <LBehrens@worldnet.att.net>
- Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 17:42:13 -0700
- To: A.Flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk
- CC: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Alan J. Flavell wrote: > > I'm not a subscriber to this list, but I found [a thread, the origin > of which was a request for help in improving the output of an > otherwise acceptable-to-the-originator WYSIWYG application] and felt > impelled to comment. ... [much opinon snipped] ... much effort is > being spent (I may say wasted) on trying to bolt-on additional > accessibility to these misconceived web documents, when, if the > originals had been designed in accordance with the principles and > practices of the original WWW concept, no repair would have been > necessary ... > Most unbiased observers of the Web would probably agree that the original WWW concept was that everyone (unskilled individuals included if not in particular) have a venue and tools to publish globally without being subjected to long periods of training. The original poster has found a tool which (for his purposes) does just that, but which lacks provision for a DOCTYPE declaration and which also inserts a few other annoyances into the documents. What is needed is not for everyone exposed even temporarily to the internet to be goaded into becoming highly-skilled HTML authors; rather we need to find temporary solutions for the problems inherent in the present tools (which is exactly what the original poster requested). Does anyone out there know a way to force the Composer segment of Netscape Communicator to include a DOCTYPE declaration, as a step toward validation and accessibility, as requested by the original poster? Regards, Larry Behrens http://betacomm.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite. - Bertrand Russell ------------------------------------------------------------
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