Re: My case for the obsoletion of longdesc (Was: 48-Hour Consensus Call: InstateLongdesc CP Update)

James Craig, Sat, 15 Sep 2012 02:29:48 -0700:
> To the best of my knowledge, one of these approaches (the iframe 
> example listed at http://cookiecrook.com/longdesc/iframe/) works in 
> all major implementations today, which is to say that it is much 
> better supported than longdesc itself. 

One problem with the <iframe> approach (and one that I by accident 
experienced with fiddling your solution), is that it puts some 
limitations on what the content of the long description can - or should 
- be. For example, imagine that it the description were to contain 
interactive content or audio/video.
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leif halvard silli