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."


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