Alberto Alberto — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:52:51 GMT

“Using CSS and truly structured content the way it’s supposed to be”

Vague enough to fall in Ezra Pound’s category “if a writer uses terms vague enough to make you believe you may concur with him, don’t concur”.

So, there is a way Css is supposed to be, and another it is not supposed to be: and yet the way it is supposed to be is murky enough to be not self evident (otherwise, why announcing such a differentation like something fit to haunt Css implementations?), and yet nonetheless the fact it is not self evident should be blamed not upon the procedure itself but imputed upon the alleged negligence of the developers.

The way Css is supposed to be, but it is having hard times to be.
Content, “truly” structured. Because there is structured content, but it is not truly so.
Who decides? The blind, the dumb, the deaf? No, because this is predicated by one who sees, who understands, who hears. He decides.

Or maybe, if the blind can understand, the dumb can hear, the deaf can see, it is truly structured. Or isn’t it?
Because if, on the contrary, via our “truly structured” Css “the way it is supposed to be” the blind can see, the dumb can understand, the deaf can hear, that’s not “truly” structured css as it is “supposed to be” – that’s Jesus Christ.

It sounds like socialism with a human face: “if it is so difficult to give a human face to something, I don’t want to have anything to do with it”.

If Css has a way it is supposed to be, and a way it is, the way it is should not be considered as implicit or surreptitious evidence against the developers, but as evidence against those who have made of css a fetich capable of surrogating where medicine fails (100 millions of americans can barely see, gee: do they have social assistance?) – at times in the name of making “accessible” to the utterly blind a blog about my experiences in a strip bar, and describe to him/her the pics.

Css, the way it is supposed to be: a totem, and a taboo. Css the way it is supposed to be, that is: the Css that doesn’t exist.

“Truly structured css as it is supposed to be”, ought to include parrots too if it wants to be true to the absolutist paradigm of “being truly”.

Miracles happens: Css, the only craft we have learned recently, empowers us to perform them.
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