Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 07:49:46 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>, Randy Pratt <rpratt@ezwv.com>, 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: <20010516074946.A20858@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20010517003901.K26132@welearn.com.au>; from sue@welearn.com.au on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:39:02AM %2B1000 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> <20010516104048.G72224@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <20010517003901.K26132@welearn.com.au>
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--PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:39:02AM +1000, Sue Blake wrote: > Is there some reason why our finished HTML itself can't be made useful > to all, as HTML was intended? Because the designers of HTML compleatly screwed up the IMG tag. :-( There are some things that work fine as ASCII art, but you can't do HTML which uses ASCII art when images are off because you can't control the formatting of text in the ALT argument of the IMG tag. DocBook handles this correctly in that you can have multiple options for any given media object including video, pictures, text, and ASCII art. Unfortunatly, there are some things that are just going to be too painful for most people to describe comprehensivly in the alt text so that's not really a fully functional option either (take the TCP state diagram as an example.) -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7ApOIXY6L6fI4GtQRAgGeAKDbzak5dw+BONDatDyeytgKB0PyvQCg5/gz 5DiXWSFYHZEQOPkL6q2aINE= =nxRQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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