- From: Dave J Woolley <DJW@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 20:00:08 +0100
- To: www-svg@w3.org
> From: Shai Eden [SMTP:shaieden@netvision.net.il] > > I am an author of a web site in Israel which talks about new technologies > in the HiTech market. > [DJW:] HiTech sounds like a brand name; I think "technology fashions" might be a better description, especially as what you are talking about is largely popularised existing technology rather than the state of the art. > We remember that 1 year ago, many companies talked about this as the > future of all web sites. > [DJW:] I hope it isn't even the future of all e-Commerce sites, which generally ignore the web philosophy. It's an appropriate replacement for GIFs in many contexts. However, it has a potential for restricting information to those with full faculties and the latest hardware, something that HTML was designed to avoid. Also, whilst used as the target for a client side translation from application specific XML, it can make data more accessible to machine processing, used directly to author pages, it can make it much more difficult (some less obvious uses of machine processing include making information accessible to blind users). On the other hand, where a diagram is the most effective medium, client side translation may get in the way.
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