Re: Identifying print page numbers in HTML documents

> The proposal for using anchor elements is undoubtedly superior and I would
> support it. However, they may be one potential problem. Admittedly, I have
> not found time to read the entire CSS specification, but the initial
> sections of that document indicate that only class and id attributes can
> be used as selectors, not rel and rev attributes. Since it would be
> desirable to be able to apply special speech or braille styles to anchor
> elements that designate page numbers as distinct from other occurrences of
> anchors, it may be necessary to use the class attribute in addition to, or
> in place of, the rev and rel attributes. Another possibility would be to
> modify CSS syntax to enable rev and rel attributes to act as selectors. I
> apologize in advance if these remarks are mistaken, since I really should
> have read all of the CSS documents before commenting.

There is a very good remark, Jason, I also made them at the Sophia
meeting :-)

[BTW, is using smileys in the text something that bothers blind users
or is is OK ?]

CSS will probably be extended with more selectors but the issue of
readyness is important so using CLASS, NAME or ID is better than REL.

Received on Wednesday, 2 July 1997 09:48:05 UTC