Sorry to cross-post my reply, but: From: Lauke Patrick Sent: 08 December 2004 11:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Text email newsletter standard
> From: Mike Brown > has anyone come across, or used, the following text email newsletter > standard: > http://www.headstar.com/ten/ Yes, stumbled across it a while ago http://www.accessify.com/archives/2004_08_15_news-archives.asp#109274881113692102 > If so, or even if you haven't but are able to look through, > how useful > do you think it is? At its essence, it tries to add structural information of sorts to an inherently un-structured medium, plain text. I'll admit that I don't use it and haven't heard any user feedback about it, but I'd say that it's an interesting idea, as long as it's used consistently. However, I'm intrigued as to their decision to call it a "standard". > Would the points outlined in the standard aid > accessibility? Insofar as it adds pseudo-structural information, it's certainly useful to a certain extent. However, to my knowledge there are no tools that would then allow users to extract (or otherwise take advantage of) this structural information, which limits TEN's usefulness. Oh, I see it's been mentioned on this list before and there are some very good points made in Jon Hanna's reply. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2004AprJun/0015.html Patrick ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
