- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 17:05:07 -0700
- To: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>
- Cc: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, Mike Smith <mike@w3.org>, "W3C WAI Protocols & Formats" <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>, Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>, wai-liaison@w3.org, www-archive <www-archive@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 3:53 PM, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu> wrote: > Jonas Sicking wrote: >> Then there are the more complicated answers like "yes, there are cases >> where you want different, but sometimes/often/mostly/occasionally you >> don't" or "sometimes you want the information to be separate, but >> people often get it wrong and only provide information to one of the >> two groups". In these cases data and actual numbers would be helpful >> in deciding if advantages outweigh disadvantages with either proposed >> solution. > > All of the above and more. If nothing, you have further made the case for > ensuring that both solutions remain available in the developer's toolbox. > Educating developers on how to make the appropriate choice is required, > but giving the developer the choice in best informing their users cannot > be anything but positive. Choice is good! Others in this thread have > already articulated well the difference between the two (with Leif > actually referencing existing documents), and as you have noted, there > will be times when one is more appropriate than the other, but at that > time, only you as content creator will be able to best decide which choice > is most appropriate. As stated, I don't have a strong opinion either way. But I will note that I also pointed out the need to gather data. It's easy to have an opinion, but we won't know whose opinion is right until we get some data. @summary has been specified for over 10 years, so there should be plenty of data out there to show if it has been a good idea or not. Wouldn't you agree? / Jonas
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