On 9/9/05, Rimantas Liubertas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't think you know what I'm talking about. The information is not for humans... obviously. Accessibility isn't just about people. The extra information is for, as I already stated, computing devices that parse the data. In XML, you really do have that much information.... every single item is surrounded by unique tags that indicate exactly what it is.
Let me say it again for the reading impaired: in XML, every single block-level item is surrounded by unique tags that indicate exactly what it is.
And the whole point of X-HTML is to make HTML more like XML. So that when you send an HTML document to a non-human reader, one that can't understand text, it can still tell what each element is supposed to be, by how you classified and titled and id'ed it.
Maybe thinking from the computing end is easier for me because I'm an electrical engineer. Just think of it this way... computer's don't know english.
2005/9/9, Christian Montoya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
<...>
> Thus, we want our markup to have as much information as
> possible, so that every block level element has a title, every object has
> its alternative content, every acronym has its definition, etc.
<...>
No, I don't want to have as much information as possible, I only want
relevant and necessary information.
Ending up in
<word><letter char="t">t</letter><letter char="h">i</letter><letter
char="i">i</letter><letter char="s">s</letter></word> does not impress
me at all.
I don't think you know what I'm talking about. The information is not for humans... obviously. Accessibility isn't just about people. The extra information is for, as I already stated, computing devices that parse the data. In XML, you really do have that much information.... every single item is surrounded by unique tags that indicate exactly what it is.
Let me say it again for the reading impaired: in XML, every single block-level item is surrounded by unique tags that indicate exactly what it is.
And the whole point of X-HTML is to make HTML more like XML. So that when you send an HTML document to a non-human reader, one that can't understand text, it can still tell what each element is supposed to be, by how you classified and titled and id'ed it.
Maybe thinking from the computing end is easier for me because I'm an electrical engineer. Just think of it this way... computer's don't know english.
