From: Alexander Savenkov (savenkov@xmlhack.ru)
Date: Sat Apr 03 2004 - 06:24:59 EST
2004-04-03T02:34:38+03:00 D. Starner <shalesller@writeme.com> wrote:
>> > It only affects its (visual) aesthetic
>> > quality.
>>
>> That is arguable. An aural user agent could pronounce "1, 2, 3" a bit
>> different from "1, 2, 3" if there is a (say) thin space between the
>> digits in the latter case. It could pronounce it quicker, for example.
> And it could read it as "thin space", too.
Yeah, and it could read it as “all your base are belong to us”. And
your browser renders it as a hollow square. Hey, and my cat can’t read
it at all. What’s the point of this?
> But it's questionable if any
> speech reader is going to try and interpret such ambiguous and rarely
> used characters specially.
As I already have said in another message, they’re not that ambiguous
and rarely used. If someone misuses them, that’s his problem.
> Even if it does, that doesn't make it plain
> text; italics and <q speaker="Holmes"> can be interpreted by speech
> readers much more usefully, but are clearly not plain text.
You can’t markup everything just like you can’t make everything
plain text. I’ve no objections to <q speaker="Holmes">. That’s just
another level.
Alexander.
-- Alexander Savenkov http://www.xmlhack.ru/ savenkov@xmlhack.ru http://www.xmlhack.ru/authors/croll/
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