- From: Scott Luebking <phoenixl@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:08:58 -0800 (PST)
- To: charles@w3.org, phoenixl@netcom.com
- Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Hi, Charles I probably should have been clearer about dynamic web pages. What I meant by the term was web pages which are generated dynamically. I'll be more careful about that distinction in the future. Scott PS I agree with many of your comments. > Scott, > > I agree absolutely that it is possible in principle to have accesible dynamic > pages. It is possible to do some things in practice, too. Currently there > area numbe of problems to be solved: > > 1. The HTML 4.0 event model assumes a mouse and keyboard interface, which is > a long way from optimal. Work on fixing that is currently taking place, most > particularly in the DOM but also in other groups. > > 2. User Agents need to be able to cope with dynaimc content. Some do, some > don't. One of the problems is letting the user know that there has been a > change, while making sure taht they don't have to stop and listen to the page > again every two seconds. > > 3. We need to do some work on how this happens in practies. > > 4. There is still a need to support legacy systems which do not have > client-side facility for much in the way of dynamic content. > > All these things are being dealt with, and we are working towards some useful > knowledge. At the same time, the possibility of dynamic content allows the > possiblity of creating dynamic widgeets on the client side, for example to > let the user know that there is form content after the submit button. > > Cheers > > Charles McCN
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