On 11.03.2010 19:44, Jorge Amodio wrote:
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Julian
Reschke<julian(_dot_)reschke(_at_)gmx(_dot_)de> wrote:
On 11.03.2010 17:54, Jorge Amodio wrote:
Besides your eyes, (only one in some cases), you don't need any extra
junkware to be able to read the RFCs, even better, without eyes you
still can do it since text to speech works very nicely with ASCII.
...
I'd claim that accessibility for properly authored HTML will actually be
better, for instance the markup can express whether something is prose or
artwork.
HTML uses ASCII as far as I remember, some tags, URIs and URLs may be
impossible to decipher these days but still ASCII (I've to admit that
some folks still use-abuse extended ASCII on HTML pages instead proper
encoding and lang selection).
HTML actually uses Unicode. All current element and attribute names are
ASCII, in case you meant that.
I don't understand the second statement, you appear to mix up character
sets, encodings (and their declarations) with language information.
About text to speech, it only takes a forward or going trough one of
the stupid no context aware robo-translators and you will get your t2s
interface reciting "gee tee ampersand semicolon greater than eich ref
equal lower than bee greater than ..." I guess you get the point.
I believe this to be not true, as long as you use the right tools (such
as an HTML UA instead of a text editor).
And I agree with Martin, all other formats add a lot of unnecessary
crap to the documents, embedded fonts, meta-crap data, hooks to track
document changes.
That's why we would need to talk about a profile of the available features.
And ASCII is more eco-friendly :-)
I'd potentially agree if the format we actually use wouldn't have
useless page breaks that leave 25% of the pages unused. At least over
here. I'd also agree if that format would actually be usable on small
devices like ebook readers (where it's essential that you can reflow the
text).
Best regards, Julian
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