From owner-freebsd-doc Wed May 16 7:58:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (unknown [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C750D37B424; Wed, 16 May 2001 07:58:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f4GEwPU86779; Thu, 17 May 2001 00:58:25 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from sue) Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 00:58:25 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: Brooks Davis Cc: Nik Clayton , "Bruce A. Mah" , Randy Pratt , 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" :) ) Message-ID: <20010517005824.L26132@welearn.com.au> Mail-Followup-To: Sue Blake , Brooks Davis , Nik Clayton , "Bruce A. Mah" , Randy Pratt , freebsd-docs@FreeBSD.ORG, Doug Young , Murray Stokely , Jim Mock 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message