[11407] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: SVG and HTML
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sarr Blumson)
Thu Jul 29 15:53:38 1999
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 15:30:17 -0400 (EDT)
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From: "Sarr Blumson" <sarr@umich.edu>
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In message <4.2.0.56.19990729111047.00c3c100@biomail.ucsd.edu>,
Dmitry Beransky writes:
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[...]
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>After all, of all the people currently designing for the Web, how many do
>actually care about or even understand the principles on which (X)HTML is
>based. All they want, is that their pages look the same everywhere. And
>that's exactly what SVG will give them. Is our future, the future of the
>Web in SVG?
Whether people care about structure depends on what their doing, of
course. Their are lots of people who only care about how pages look; some
of them are
the ones whose pages are already one giant gif, with an image map. But
the structure conveys information that gets lost that way. Knowing that a
list is a list lets a screen reader for blind users _tell_ them that it's
enumerating a list. Heading tags let a search engine tell you whether
hits occurred in section headings or in text (the Text Encoding Initiative
<http://www.tei-c.org/> carries this to great lengths for academics doing
textual analysis stuff. All of this matters to some people.
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