- From: Brian Kelly <lisbk@ukoln.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:50:05 +0100
- To: WAI <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
I would like to suggest that WAI consider guidelines for linking to binary resources (e.g. PDF, Word and PowerPoint files) and also citation of such resources in email (e.g. to this list). I would suggest that URLs should *not* point to binary files directly but instead point to an intermediate HTML file which provides links to various versions of the file e.g. PowerPoint (best suited for presentation and printing thumbnails), HTML conversion of PowerPoint file (suitable for viewing if you don't have a PowerPoint viewer, or the wrong version of PowerPoint, can be indexed) and, in the future an aural cascading style sheet version of the PowerPoint file (we're waiting for MS to develop something like this). Pointing directly to a resource will not provide any flexibility to do things like this (or embed other useful metadata, such as Dublin Core resource discovery metadata, rights metadata, version number details, file sizes, etc.) As example of what I suggest see: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/jusw-sep1998/ ------------------------------------------------------ Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus UKOLN, University of Bath, BATH, England, BA2 7AY Email: b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ Homepage: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/b.kelly.html Phone: 01225 323943 FAX: 01225 826838
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