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Re: Re[2]: Re[2]: Dayton Art Alternative Descriptions

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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Nov 10, 2004 4:15PM

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, redux wrote:

> Two sides of the same
> coin, two solutions to the same problem inherent in HTML documents: that
> navigation and content are not separated properly in the markup, but
> share the same space. In an ideal world, these would be completely
> separate blocks in the document, and user agents would expose both to
> the user and offer an easy way to switch focus between them.

No disagreement on this. And the idealists could even put the navigation
into elements and say that they _have_ separated navigation from
content.

But the problem is really small unless you make it big. _That_ is the
heart of the problem in practice. It's roughly as big as your set of
navigational links. However if you have several independent sets of
navigational links, it gets _really_ big.

> Whereas the need to jump to the end of the document and then backtrack
> (potentially experiencing the navigation in reverse) is not an
> inconvenience?

Not really, when there's just a small set of navigational links there.
Perhaps just one, pointing to an index page that has site navigation and
little else.

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Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/