- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 12:10:17 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org, plh@w3.org
Ian Jacobs wrote: > > Hello, > > I have just been talking with Philippe Le Hegaret, > who is the W3C DOM Activity Lead about checkpoint 5.1, which > in the Candidate Rec [1] reads: > > 5.1 Provide programmatic read and write access to content by > conforming > to W3C Document Object Model (DOM) specifications and exporting > interfaces defined by those specifications. [Priority 1] > > There have already been much Candidate Rec discussion about this > checkpoint > (refer to issues 190 [2] and 194 [3]). Here are some additional comments > from my conversation with Philippe: > > 1) DOM only addresses HTML and XML. Therefore, checkpoint 5.1 would not > cover programmatic access to content in any other format, such as > SGML. To address this point in particular, I propose that we add a checkpoint whose language echos that of Candidate Rec [1], checkpoint 5.2: Provide programmatic read and write access to content using standard APIs (e.g., platform-independent APIs such as the W3C DOM, standard APIs for the operating system, and conventions for programming languages) [Priority 1] Then, the checkpoint requiring DOM for access to content would be an important special case of this checkpoint (and both would be priority 1). A note would indicate that for XML and HTML, satisfaction of the DOM requirement would meet the more general checkpoint. - Ian > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-UAAG10-20000128/ > [2] http://cmos-eng.rehab.uiuc.edu/ua-issues/issues-linear.html#190 > [3] http://cmos-eng.rehab.uiuc.edu/ua-issues/issues-linear.html#194 > -- > Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs > Tel/Fax: +1 212 684-1814 or 212 532-4767 > Cell: +1 917 450-8783 -- Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel/Fax: +1 212 684-1814 or 212 532-4767 Cell: +1 917 450-8783
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