Re: Definition for Content, etc

Ian,

I'm eager to tweak and would appreciate your wordsmithing skills. Your
proposed revision does not communicate the fact that, in this document,
content is comprised of information, structure and presentation. If you can
add that relational clarification to your revision, I like it.

Jutta

Ian Jacobs wrote:
>
>1) I am uncomfortable with a definition that begins "Web content is
>content..."
>
>2) Also, "Web content consists of the information" is followed by
>   "Web content information refers to the message". So, by transitivity,
>   is content the message?
>
>3) I don't think you need to consider the message of information
>   as part of content.
>
>I find these definitions a bit unwieldly. Can we tweak yours and the
>WCAG 1.0 definitions as follows:
>
>a) Web content is information published on the Web or an Intranet
>   and viewed by a Web browser. Authors represent information
>   in a variety of ways on the Web, including through natural
>   language, images, sounds, movies, animations, etc.
>
>b) The structure of Web content refers to its logical organization
>   (e.g., by chapter, with an introduction and table of contents,
>   etc.).
>
>c) The presentation of Web content refers to the way it
>   is output to the user (e.g., as print, as a two-dimensional
>   graphical presentation, as an text-only presentation,
>   as synthesized speech, as braille, etc.)
>
>
> - Ian
>

Received on Thursday, 2 September 1999 14:01:25 UTC