- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:41:54 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- cc: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Laura Carlson wrote: > > Ian, I would really appreciate your advice on that spec text too. What > is technically wrong with it? Well, it reintroduces longdesc, a feature which is almost universally misused and will therefore do basically nothing but cause users pain, something which has been repeatedly explained. That's the main problem with it. I didn't examine it any closer since that's pretty much a fatal problem with the text as it is. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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