Re: Baby Steps or Backwards Steps?

On 16 Aug 2007, at 0539, aurélien levy wrote:

>> Given that the practical effect of requiring the alt attribute  
>> everywhere, including photo sites like Flickr, is typically one of  
>> those options, what benefits do options 2, 3 or 4 offer over  
>> option 1?
> and what is the benefits of option 1 over 2,3 and 4

Fewer bytes on the wire, no redundant information in the file, and no  
pro forma uninformative attributes. Which results in smaller files  
with higher signal-to-noise ratios and _no loss of information_.

scott.