On 3/26/07, Stuart Foulstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nobody mentioned nesting flowcharts (whatever that means: a flowchart is a flowchart).
Well, no, but you'd have to nest *L's to represent recursion in a flowchart. The flowchart is recursive, therefore the definition/unordered/ordered list is nested & inaccurately recurring because HTML is still designed for linear document structure, despite that whole crazy hypertext thing. On 3/26/07, russ - maxdesign <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Without opening another can of worms, there actually *is* a way to add meaning to films - called SMIL - " Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language".
Yeah, you're right... but that's still using another technology. What I don't get with that is the point to having 'standards' that require a not-so-widely-available implementation to be applied. I could write the JSSFLA (Josh Street Standard For Long-winded Acroynms) and it has absolutely no clout until there are several acronym providers that bother to implement that standard consistently -- especially with "multimedia" things, this is historically a problem. (For a more recent example of the mess that is multimedia, look at all the competing consumer/prosumer/professional high definition video standards) That said, SMIL has decent vendor support where it's implemented, but last time I looked into it I'm not sure if it was possible with Windows Media content except with a separate proprietary Microsoft spec for the same sort of thing -- and, though there are some helpful authoring tools out there [1], semantically representing a film can actually mean more than captioning. Captioning is accessibility -- preserving semantics using markup to represent a visual message is something else that's rather more elusive. All of this, whilst academically interesting, probably has little bearing on the problem at hand... I just thought film was a good example of how even when you can communicate with dynamic equivalence what's going on, you're probably still not going to be doing this in a structured way. That is, you'd probably use a blob of text perhaps grouped into paragraphs to give a summary of the visual action/staging information, rather than simply supply time-coded captioning (though you may also do this), in order to fully encapsulate the content of a film. Josh 1. http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/index.html - was mentioned in Links for Light Reading a few weeks back I think... ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
