- From: Butler, Mark <Mark_Butler@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 09:57:06 +0100
- To: www-mobile@w3.org
At 03:52, 24/06/01 Tom Worthington wrote: >Frames and tables in HTML are more of a display format rather than a data >abstraction. The table syntax has been enhanced with extra detail to >indicate column headings. This introduced a sort of data model for the table. >Perhaps we need an slightly more abstract notation to represent the >relationship between groups of information. This might be interpreted by >browsers as a multiple frames on a large screen or as hypertext links on a >small screen. Yes I agree - adding data models and grouping information would definitely help. I was interested to see the examples of grouping information in the W3C WAI Content Authoring Techniques document. For example http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#group-bypass describes how you can group links together to form objects identifiable as navigation bars. This is important because whether a device displays such a bar will depend on the amount of screen real-estate available. Pages may also be organised into navigation bars and content using frames. There are some interesting suggestions about how to avoid frames in the same document http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#alt-frames (although I must admit when I tried this I couldn't get it to work due to lack of user agent conformance - the only browser that seems to support the object tag properly is IE but IE5 seems to have insufficient CSS support for the example). Thanks for the WebML reference - I hadn't seen that. regards Mark Butler HP Labs Bristol
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