Re: Amaya source view, tidy, and things

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:

> One of the requirements of the Authoring Tool Accessibility
> Guidelines that Amaya currently fails is checkpoint 4.3 Allow
> the author to preserve Markup not recognised by the tool.
> 
> If the source view allowed saving of the source, then it seems
> that it would be possible to have a mode where the source view
> was interactively TIDY'ed or corrected as Amaya itself does
> currently. (which could be overridden by the author. Of course
> if the document is not valid Amaya need not process it further,
> should the author reject the corrections made)
> 
> In general, it would be nice to incorporate tidy features into
> Amaya. I realise this is not in the primary development path,
> but it would seem like a useful feature, and a good way to use
> the source view.

Note that Tidy won't tidy documents with tags it doesn't
know about. You can teach tidy about new tags, e.g. if you
want to tidy documents using HTML and MathML.

Regards,

-- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett
tel/fax: +44 122 578 3011 (or 2521) +44 385 320 444 (mobile)
World Wide Web Consortium (on assignment from HP Labs)

Received on Tuesday, 11 January 2000 02:51:58 UTC