Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 00:58:25 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> 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: <20010517005824.L26132@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20010516074946.A20858@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>; from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net on Wed, May 16, 2001 at 07:49:46AM -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> <20010516104048.G72224@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <20010517003901.K26132@welearn.com.au> <20010516074946.A20858@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 07:49:46AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> 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.)
Which is why the D link convention was adopted for longer descriptions.
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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