Re: Initial Draft --Cascaded Speech Style Sheets

Scott E. Preece (preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com)
Thu, 15 Feb 1996 20:37:45 -0600

| >text on the screen. Especially, it would seem, in creating
| >advertisements (inarguably a major faction of Web publishing), designers
| >often want a particular font face, size, color or whatever, applied to a
| >section of text for purely presentational (vs. content-based)
| >reasons.
|
| For such cases, people might be *far* better off using PDF or RTF, or
| defining a tag set all of their own, with associated stylesheets. They
| could define: <FONT>, <COLOR>, <MARQUEE>, or whatever they want.
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But if the DTD included tags like product-id, product-vendor,
product-price, etc., then indexing tools could pick up the commercial
parts of the advertisement and build an appropriate super catalog of the
net, for instance.  So, I don't think PDF or RTF would be a better
choice - most advertisers want their data accessible andmeaningful
tagging is the key to intelligent accessibility.


scott



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