- From: Tim Bagot <tsb-w3-html-0006@earth.li>
- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 19:26:31 +0000 (UTC)
- To: <www-html@w3.org>
At 2002-12-18T16:54+0200, Mikko Rantalainen wrote:- > Daniel Glazman wrote: > > 9. Link types should allow "icon" for rel/rev. That's proposed by > I'm not sure how aural browsers should render the icon but I think we > need to provide similar support for those too. The site designer could choose to provide another icon of audio/* type; an aural browser might render such icons when presenting a list of pages to the user (whether for bookmarks, buffer selection, history, etc.). It could even be served from the same URI, using content negotiation, avoiding the need for an extra link element on every page. Therefore all that is required is that the specification be written so as not to preclude the use of icons that are not images. It is however not entirely clear to me that icons do not belong in style sheets - they are, after all, essentially entirely presentational. On the face of it, icons of this sort do not fit into the CSS framework particularly well, as they seem applicable only to whole pages (or usually collections of pages), whereas CSS would tend to allow an icon to be suggested for any element(s) in a document; OTOH it is certainly not impossible to envisage ways in which icons for elements within a document might be used (e.g. an automatically generated outline). Tim Bagot
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