- From: <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 02:34:35 -0700 (PDT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Proposal: There should be a modality-independent, platform-independent, implementation-independent way to refer to standard iconic information. This should be a work undertaken by the W3C and others interested parties. Ideas: * Creation of a sufficiently large set of standard icon types and at least 3 sets (of varying size) of those icons. Each icon is identified by a "code name" as well as a translation in the major languages. E.g.: Code Translation (English) file File search Search www The World Wide Web * The creation of an "icon:" pseudo-URI scheme similar to the "about:" URIs found in many browsers. This would enable the following: <a href="http://kynn.com/search/"> <img src="icon:search" alt="Search this site" /> </a> * Alternately (or in addition), extend XHTML entity sets to include the icon sets (possibly via assigning them to unicode): <a href="http://kynn.com/search/"> <span alt="&icon-search;">Search</span> this site </a> or <a href="http://google.com/"> <span alt="&icon-search;">Search</span> the <span alt="&icon-www;">Web</span> </a> * Possibly the following can work as well: <a href="http://kynn.com/search/"> &icon-search; this site </a> or <a href="http://google.com/">&icon-search; the &icon-www;</a> * Or when encountering the following: <a href="http://google.com/">Search the Web</a> ...n intelligent user agent or server processor could convert that to iconic markup automatically. * Icon sets function as fonts in textual visual browsers, allowing the user to select which icon set is desired -- e.g., one based on size or contrast or colors or simplicity, or maybe just a general style. Users can install additional icon sets made by various groups of people. If I have time I will propose something like this to the W3C, perhaps as part of the Device Independent activity which is being discussed. Is anyone else interested in working on this? Has anyone else done such a project already or any of the work toward it? --&icon-Kynn;
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