On Dec 21, 2006, at 05:21, Karl Dubost wrote:
Le 21 déc. 2006 à 00:23, Henri Sivonen a écrit :
Actually, structure is communicated to people using presentation.
Presentation isn't just about attractiveness.
Lao Niu puts his two fingers in the eyes of Henri in a Full contact
move. Henri is blind. Henri is trying to kick the legs, and Lao Niu
is putting two sharp sticks in Henri's ears. Henri is desperate
trying to read the old master tales.
That was uncalled for.
The point is that there are limited ways of communicating data to
humans. Content needs to be *presented* on visual, aural or tactile
media in practice. Olfactory and gustative media would have
hopelessly bad data transfer rates, so it isn't practical to design
for them.
For human consumers of content, practical device and media
independence is achieved when there are reasonable presentations for
realistically applicable media. Moreover, it is just natural that
authors want to *optimize* for the visual media first with aural and
tactile media coming as second and a distant third. Also, it seems to
me that the usefulness of non-heuristic machine consumption of
semantic roles of things like dialogs, names of vessels, biological
taxonomical names, quotations, etc. has been vastly exaggerated.
Therefore, I think the non-presentationalism principle shouldn't be
taken too dogmatically.
--
Henri Sivonen
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