- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 18:17:07 +0200
- To: csant <csant@csant.info>
- Cc: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, www-style@w3.org
On Wednesday, August 4, 2004, 5:22:25 PM, csant wrote:
c> On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 16:34:04 +0200, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> wrote:
>> This is in contrast to the aural media, which is serialized by the
>> speech synthesizer; contrast
>>
>> h2:before { content: url(welcome-fanfare.mid); }
>>
>> h2 {cue-before: url(welcome-fanfare.mid); }
>>
>> In the latter case the fanfare willsound justbefore each h2 is read out.
c> Specifying 'content' :before h2 still is serialized by the speech
c> synthesizer - it plays the audio file before reading the heading, exactly
c> as the 'cue-before' example does: the latter method additonally allows you
c> to add some aural "padding" around the header by means of the 'pause'
c> property on h2, which comes before the element's contents but after the
c> cue.
I was contrasting the :before in a visual medium with the cue-before in
an aural medium.
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Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org
Chair, W3C SVG Working Group
Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group
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