On 10/20/07, russ - maxdesign <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The same happens when they come across this sort of link when reading the > page contents. A link saying "continue reading" gives them absolutely no > context. They have to guess from associated content what you are pointing > to.
And yet... here you hit the underlying problem: to what extent should fragments of web content be required to be meaningful when completely stripped of context? To see why this is an important question, change the situation to a Web page which displays academic-style research, and give the user agent a "show all footnotes" option; at that point, does using "Ibid." and/or "Id." as footnote text render the document "inaccessible"? These abbreviations are common and well-understood, yet have meanings which are entirely dependent on context; in the hypothetical case of a user agent which displays footnotes devoid of context, should their use then be forbidden? And getting back to the actual issue at hand: given that there are plenty of real-world situations like this where context is vitally important, is an absolutist proscription to "make all instances of this element meaningful when stripped of context" really a good idea? -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct." ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
