Re: What does 'look for semantics' mean....

Hi David
Clearly I am not up to speed on this issue, is there
anything on the web that you could point me to that
would allow me to increase my knowledge. (I had a look
at the W3C Semantics site but I can't get anything our
of it). Preferably short and 'low level'.

I am also lost when you say 'your mail program is
using MIME header encoding on your name when there
are no characters in that require it.'
I am using Yahoo Email, is what it is doing
inaccessible? If so, I would like to try and fix it.

Cheers
Graham Oliver


--- David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk> wrote: >
> document is sound. It also lets the user agent
> know
> > where to look for semantics if it needs to.'
> 
> Recognize headings, paragraphs, list items as such,
> rather
> than just as formatting effects.  It basically means
> use the
> language as intended, not just for visual effect.
> 
> > and also if this ability to 'look for semantics'
> is
> > used in any current 'User Agents'.
> 
> IE4+ and NS6 use them whenever the user supplies a
> style sheet.
> 
> Amaya (browser editor) and html2ps (print convertor)
> rely on correct
> semantic use of Hn to generate tables of contents
> (for the use of this in
> html2ps, look at the PDF version of the HTML 4.01 or
> CSS2 specfications).
> 
> D J Delorie claims that some search engines rely on
> semantically correct
> use of Hn to construct an outline of the document,
> rather than using initial
> lines, or meta elements.
> 
> When one extends to XML, correct semantics allows
> documents to be machine
> processed.
> 
> Any non-pixel oriented browser, e.g. Lynx, or, in
> principle, screen readers,
> requires correct semantics to render a document
> recognisably (sometimes they
> can approximate, but not always).
> 
> Although I don't know if it is done in practice,
> correct use of TH,
> etc., allows non-visual browsers that follow the
> guidelines in the HTML
> specification to render tables understandably.
> 
> What could be done with Hn and lists is to provide a
> folded view of the
> document (c.f. Word outline mode).  For Hn this
> requires proper nesting, 
> as required by ISO HTML.
> 
> PS your mail program is using MIME header encoding
> on your name when there
> are no characters in that require it.
> 


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