Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 10:40:48 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, Randy Pratt <rpratt@ezwv.com>, Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-docs@FreeBSD.ORG, Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>, Murray Stokely <murray@osd.bsdi.com>, Jim Mock <jim@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Install Preview (was Re: (was) I'm leaving, now something like "anti official docs rant" :) ) Message-ID: <20010516104048.G72224@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <200105160129.f4G1TtF13540@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 06:29:54PM -0700 References: <01051513051703.00373@k6-2.weeble.com> <200105151727.f4FHRos64816@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <01051515135804.00373@k6-2.weeble.com> <20010516093113.G26123@welearn.com.au> <200105160129.f4G1TtF13540@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>
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--m972NQjnE83KvVa/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 06:29:54PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, Sue Blake wrote: > > One of the things I've always loved about this doc is that people using > > text browsers like lynx get the "picture" too. Most people who use lynx > > do so because they have no alternative (low memory machine or broken X > > config or security restriction on the spare machine, or blind user) and > > it is often so easy to include support for them if only a little > > forethought is given to the task. >=20 > Hmmm. I haven't played with this much, but if Randy uses the FreeBSD > DocProj infrastructure (based on DocBook based on SGML) there's some > facilities for doing graphics with alternate textual representations. I > think that the few documents that use images (design-44bsd is done of > them) will take advantage of this. I know they can generate ASCII-only= =20 > *.txt files correctly but I am not sure how this comes across in HTML. Typically, you wouldn't look at the HTML -- if you don't want the pictures, download the text version from the FTP site. It wouldn't be a great deal of effort to add the text only versions to the website as well. > > In that respect you've done very well, Randy. It would be a shame if > > those people lost their text "pictures" due to the demands of progress, > > but I guess that's gotta happen one day. >=20 > I sure hope it doesn't. Keeping Web pages accessible to non-traditional > browsers is a Good Thing (TM). You can take it as read that I know this, and am in full agreement. That's one of the reasons why image support took so long to come in -- it wasn't going to happen until the infrastructure supported text-only equivalents as well. N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- --m972NQjnE83KvVa/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjsCSx8ACgkQk6gHZCw343U7AwCeKutnohs6y8WxXXjAmdyJdz1+ 6SsAn2vOktgUcnC7avkZmMCdfJyy9hra =Ec9X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --m972NQjnE83KvVa/-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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