- From: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
- Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:53:35 +0200
- To: john@netpurgatory.com
- CC: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
John C. Vernaleo 2008-08-07 22.09:
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Ian Hickson wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Philip Taylor wrote:
>>>
>>> <img src="..." alt="{x \over y} = {1 \over {y \over x}}">
[ ... versus ... ]
>> <img src="..." alt="The fraction x over y is equal to 1 divided by the
>> fraction y over x.">
[ ... ]
> At least the version that was close to the LaTeX code still contained
> the relevant information in a way that is mostly parsable by a human.
For images used in headers, one would expect
<h1><img src=src alt="Header text"></h1>.
Why should we have lower expectations about coding practise when
it comes to putting LaTeX source code into @alt?
HTML 4 takes into account that <blockquote> is misused for
indenting text and says that User Agents therefore "should not
insert quotation marks in the default style".
Likewise, perhaps the cowpath to put LaTeX code into @alt needs to
be taken into account. But in the first place we must realise that
putting source code into @alt and assuming people/User Agents
figure it out by themselves, is wrong.
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leif halvard silli
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