Subject: Re: Formatting Objects considered harmful
From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 14:50:54 +0200 (MET DST)
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Stephen Deach wrote:
> If I aurally walk an XSL FO tree (ignoring the preliminary layout
> definition stuff), I get a completely understandable result. So, I need to
> ask, what problem are you trying to infer.
Are you suggeting that visual formatting objects improve non-visual
access to the Web? Infering aural renderings from a visual ones has
been tried in the form of "screen readers". This is a dead end and
structured markup has promised better solutions for years.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie http://www.operasoftware.com/people/howcome
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- Re: Formatting Objects considered harmful, (continued)
- Ian Hickson - Fri, 23 Apr 1999 04:11:03 +0100 (BST)
- Paul Prescod - Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:46:43 -0500
- Wendell Piez - Fri, 23 Apr 1999 19:29:43 +0100
- Stephen Deach - Fri, 23 Apr 1999 19:20:21 -0700
- Håkon Wium Lie - Sun, 25 Apr 1999 14:50:54 +0200 (MET DST) <=
- Chris Maden - Sat, 24 Apr 1999 11:25:01 -0400 (EDT)
- Michel Goossens - Sat, 24 Apr 1999 20:17:40 +0200 (METDST)
- James Clark - Sun, 25 Apr 1999 07:34:35 +0700
- Paul Prescod - Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:29:19 -0500
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