Hi
I think we discussed this last week and descided that it is a job for the
browser to figure out how many instances are fitting in (Reason as Emmanuel
pointed out: It depends on the output format and browsing paradigm).
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Emmanuel Pietriga" <Emmanuel.Pietriga_at_lri.fr>
To: <general_at_simile.mit.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 4:55 AM
Subject: Re: Updated Fresnel Ontologies and Examples - internationalization
> David Huynh wrote:
>
> > Another note about lists: People might need a convenient way to display
> > only the top X items and provide a link to the rest, or a way to show
> > all items at once:
> >
> > A knows B, C, D, and [37 more people]
> >
> > The truncation might not be specified as a number (3 as above), but
> > might depend on the screenspace available (e.g., "show however many
> > items that fits on at most 2 lines"). Yup, it's a tough one :-) but I'm
> > very certain that it's needed.
>
> "show however many items that fits on at most 2 lines": how would you
> say that in HTML+CSS ? If think you can't. Adding to this that we do not
> make any assumption on the output format (HTML+CSS, SVG, PDF, Java2D,
> etc.), it seems difficult to support this kind of display property.
>
>
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Received on Mon Mar 14 2005 - 18:27:06 EST