Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 18:29:54 -0700 From: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: Randy Pratt <rpratt@ezwv.com>, bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, 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: <200105160129.f4G1TtF13540@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> 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>
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--==_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
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