Adam,
regarding why don't you.. mash-ups
I do, but as described in earlier emails and in reply to Allan, there
is a further problem, fully described earlier, and copied below. it's
vital the bbc provides the "right" data, or at least data that's
consistent.
>> for instance "cloudy" text has been represented by both a black
cloud, and a white one in the last 24 hours for London.
regards
Jonathan Chetwynd
Accessibility Consultant on Media Literacy and the Internet
2 the thread given previously has more detail, please find attached
just one example "cloudy" please check feed data for 25/07/07
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/bbcweather/features/symbols.shtml
> http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/rss/5day/world/0008.xml
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=0008
It's true "the actual text in the feed is pretty consistant" it is
consistent, but not in the way defined in the explanations where
there are more than 17 discrete icons used by the BBC.
the fact that you can match 10 text expressions to ten icons means
that your icons are without doubt different in intent to those being
used at that time by the BBC.
for instance as I mentioned, "cloudy" text has been represented by
both a black cloud, and a white one in the last 24 hours for London.
the feeds don't contain the text information that differentiates,
though by changing the text systematically this could easily be
achieved.
On 8 Dec 2007, at 02:09, Adam wrote:
Quoting "~:'' ありがとうございました。"
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regarding metadata, for instance copyright and language variants
can be
incorporated as per http://www.peepo.co.uk as does scaling, see same
example, as mentioned below the current gifs dont even have
transparency, at least they didnt, so the results are very ugly....
So why don't you just use different images in your mashups.
I thought that was one of the main ideas of backstage, they provide
the content and we use the data to create implementations/mashups
that we feel are better.
Instead of continually asking for these SVG images why don't you
create a accessible weather page on your peepo site using the data
provided by the BBC.
I'm yet to see a reason to use SVG, mainly because it blocks 80% of
web users from using them, as until IE* has any support SVG is pretty
pointless.
*I know that there is an Adobe plugin for IE, but they have announced
they are going to stop support.
Adam
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