From owner-freebsd-doc Tue May 15 18:30: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com (sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com [171.71.163.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E81237B423; Tue, 15 May 2001 18:29:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@cisco.com) Received: from bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com [171.70.84.42]) by sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com (8.11.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id f4G1Tt924309; Tue, 15 May 2001 18:29:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f4G1TtF13540; Tue, 15 May 2001 18:29:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200105160129.f4G1TtF13540@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1+ 05/14/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Sue Blake Cc: Randy Pratt , bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, Nik Clayton , freebsd-docs@FreeBSD.ORG, Doug Young , Murray Stokely , Jim Mock Subject: Re: Install Preview (was Re: (was) I'm leaving, now something like "anti official docs rant" :) ) In-Reply-To: <20010516093113.G26123@welearn.com.au> 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> Comments: In-reply-to Sue Blake message dated "Wed, 16 May 2001 09:31:13 +1000." From: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_994176796P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 18:29:54 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --==_Exmh_994176796P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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. 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 *.txt files correctly but I am not sure how this comes across in HTML. > 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. I sure hope it doesn't. Keeping Web pages accessible to non-traditional browsers is a Good Thing (TM). Bruce. --==_Exmh_994176796P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.3.1+ 05/14/2001 iD8DBQE7AdgS2MoxcVugUsMRAmQsAJ49yKNzsUAtPdLaiHQZ6QMlbGBkvgCgqE62 AyXgLZF8plapLc9lTxrHQdc= =IY+C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_994176796P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message