Re: W3C recommends: Avoid ASCII Art
ilt...@sci.fi (Ilmari Karonen) wrote: miK (mmi...@dataweb.nl) wrote: : 2. Indiscriminative because - in my opinion - this "recommendation" : just has in mind: the occasional use of ascii-art (like in e-mail) : on a webpage. And is unaware of / ignores the fact ascii-art is : displayed on webpages being the main topic. >Well, I've personally gotten used to their style - the tendency to use >black-and-white terms without much politeness. All these style guidelines >apply to the average situation. Art galleries, whether of images, music >or ascii art, generally aren't average in their area. Yep, you're right, i should have known better. This is the manner writing of "Standardization". >: What this W3C WAI-GL working group is doing sounds sympathetic to me, >: but I really don't think they stand a chance against the majority of >: (visually) able Internet users and <H1>.coms</H1> like Microsoft and >: Netscape. :( ^ > | >error: H1 is not a text-level tag. ---' >Sorry. Couldn't resist. :) hehe... It was supposed to be a tag at company level. On text-level I would have said <SUB>...</SUB> (but who am I anyway?). >Unfortunately, I have to agree with you. But at least they're trying. Didn't know there existed endeavours at making the WWW accessible to the visually disabled. Your input has "at least" opened *my* eyes. So thanks again. mic
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,d35903f96291cc89 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: mmi...@dataweb.nl (miK) Subject: Re: W3C recommends: Avoid ASCII Art Date: 1998/02/11 Message-ID: <6br7aq$ofe$1...@news.Leiden.NL.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 323980646 References: <34d...@news.demon.nl> <6bhpv4$2js$1...@tron.sci.fi> <qM5...@xemu.demon.co.uk> <6bks76$5bt$1...@tron.sci.fi> <6bm15k$k47$1...@news.Leiden.NL.net> <6bn74n$aec$1...@tron.sci.fi> <6boiia$c82$1...@news.Leiden.NL.net> <6bqhmg$qkt$2...@tron.sci.fi> Organization: NLnet Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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