On 3/26/07, Nick Gleitzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have to incorporate a couple of simple flowcharts into the content of a site I'm building, I'm scratching my head about the best way to mark up this info in a semantically meaningful way.
On 3/26/07, Joshua Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Flash would be a good way to produce accessible flowcharts (it lets you re-use symbols, etc., so there is a sense in which it has more inherent semantics than an image would) -- but it's not markup. That's a simple flowchart, too -- anything slightly more recursive and even the most horrifically nested [definition/ordered/unordered] list wouldn't suffice to represent its meaning. And, remember, it's one thing to create a technically-accurate solution, but quite another to produce an accessible & generally sensible (usable) one.
I agree: HTML doesn't readily lend itself to marking up flowcharts. Rather than Flash, however, the task seems better suited to XML and/or perhaps SVG. A cursory Googlin' turned up [1], which might do the trick, but of course you run into the already mentioned problem of user agent support (the last "news" update at the site referenced was 3 August 2004). Dan 1. <http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/> ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
