Re: Proposal: accessibility revision for the img element... from Philip Taylor (Webmaster) on 2007-06-26 (public-html@w3.org from June 2007)

From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:02:13 +0100
To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
CC: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>, Olivier GENDRIN <olivier.gendrin@gmail.com>, Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl>, public-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <46810045.1080104@Rhul.Ac.Uk>

Anne van Kesteren wrote:

 > <image> turns into <img> during parsing for legacy reasons.

Can you support this with statistics, Anne ?  What percentage
of extant web pages use <image> at all, and what percentage
of those that do assume that it has the same syntax and
semantics as <img> ?

Philip Taylor

Received on Tuesday, 26 June 2007 12:07:10 UTC