- From: Matthew Smith <matt@kbc.net.au>
- Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 07:12:31 +1030
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Mike Brown wrote: >has anyone come across, or used, the following text email newsletter >standard: >http://www.headstar.com/ten/ I would raise a simple question: does a newsletter belong in the email domain in the first place? In my mind, the newsletter whould be written as accessible (X)HTML and posted on the Worldwide Web. An e-mail could be sent comprising an introductory paragraph, a list of section titles and the URI of the online newsletter itself. This letter would obviate the need for a new structural markup as it would merely point to a document written with an established markup. Looking at the process that the W3C goes through to produce a Technical Recommendation, creating new markup "standards" is not something to be undertaken lightly. Please consider also the bandwidth implications of sending out longer e-mails and the storage space available to the recipients. [I've seen the latter as a problem in "real life"] Just the point of view of someone who does not like email attachments and regards long email circulars (like newsletters) as being just as bad. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith South Australia http://www.kbc.net.au FOAF: http://www.mss.cx/foaf.rdf
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