Re: the market hasn't spoken - it hasn't bothered to listened [was Re: fear of "invisible metadata"]

On Jun 26, 2007, at 1:12 AM, Robert Burns wrote:

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> On Jun 26, 2007, at 3:02 AM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
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>> <object data="foo.mpeg" alt="A kitten playing with yarn."></object>
>> <object data="foo.mpeg">A kitten playing with yarn.</object>
>>
>> Doesn't look abbreviated to me.
>>
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> I might be wrong here, but I suspect you created your example so  
> that their would be no difference between the @alt content and the  
> fallback content. While that's a nice example, my point was that we  
> might want to think through whether that is always the case (in  
> which case @alt is not needed on the modern elements) or whether we  
> need to provide different mechanisms for these (possibly) different  
> semantics (@alt as an abbreviated alternate to non-text media and  
> fallback for non-text media).

Sorry, I misunderstood what you meant by "abbreviated". I thought you  
meant a shorter way of expressing the same fallback content. But now  
I see you mean that you could both have an alt attribute for a short  
alternative and full fallback content for a longer alternative. I  
think that would just be confusing, personally.

Regards,
Maciej