Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die

[Mike Gerwitz <mikegerwitz@gnu.org>]

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On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 18:05:53 +0000, Tom wrote:
> Regarding accessibility the current HTML manuals could also be
> made more accessible (i.e. work like info). It just involves adding
> some JS code to the HTML.

I consider adding JS to be more of a kluge than a solution; while this
does add additional functionality, it is specific to the page (not
handled by the web browser), non-standard, and wouldn't function in a
nice text-based browser.

Even as a web developer, I rarely enable JavaScript and consider a web
page to be broken if it requires it.  In this case, the page would
function just fine without (and would therefore not be broken), but the
experience would differ.

If the goal (according to ESR) is to appeal to the younger crowd, this
wouldn't do that.

I see no problem with our current format, which can generate decent HTML
(though it could be improved upon), and which can be cached by the
browser for instant page views to already-visited nodes.  Users who do
care about keyboard-based navigation can use either access keys[0], or
install an extension (I use Vimperator).  I would not want a web page to
dictate that for me.

[0]: http://mdn.beonex.com/en/HTML/Global_attributes.html

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