Re: Identifying print page numbers in HTML documents

I'm forwarding a message that was sent to the list very early on.

Note that it's related to the action items under ICADD
in the list at http://www.w3.org/WAI/group/actions.html.
(I updated the list with pointers)




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From: Murray Maloney

To accomodate the need to match the functionality
of the <IPP> and <PP> elements in the ICADD-22,
we agreed that we could use the existing <A> tag.
The use of <A> in this case requires the use of
standardized values for the REL and REV attributes,
and a convention for the names of target anchors.

We need conventions for pointing to a target anchor
and asserting that it represents the beginning of
an "Imprint Page" or a "Braille Page". There are
two potential and complementary mechanisms available:

- Use a naming conventions for identifying
anchors, such as "IPP-[0-9]+", "IPP-[ivxlc]",
"BPP-[0-9]+" or "IPP-[ivxlc]+", etc.

- Use REL="BPP" or REL="IPP"

I assert that it would be helpful and reliably redundant
to utilize both methods, and am recommending that.

We need conventions for naming an anchor, which may serve
as the target of a hypertext link, that asserts itself
to be the represent the beginning of an "Imprint Page" 
or a "Braille Page". There are two potential and 
complementary mechanisms available:

- Use a naming conventions for identifying
anchors, such as "IPP-[0-9]+", "IPP-[ivxlc]",
"BPP-[0-9]+" or "IPP-[ivxlc]+", etc.

- Use REV="BPP" or REV="IPP"

I assert that it would be helpful and reliably redundant
to utilize both methods, and am recommending that.

Regards,

Murray

Murray Maloney, Technical Advisor
Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation

Received on Tuesday, 1 July 1997 07:28:24 UTC