RE: nbsp ok for decorative alt?

I think the text says 'images that should be ignored".

But from this comment it looks like it should not be ignored (or the text
will run together).  

Nice thought Johannes. 

We may need to look at our guidelines so that decorative and spacer are not
considered the same - and may have different recommendations.  

Hmmmm

Gregg

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Of Johannes Koch
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 11:44 AM
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Subject: Re: nbsp ok for decorative alt?


Michael Cooper wrote:
> Text<img src="spacer.gif" alt=" " />Text
> 
> The whitespace alt ensures the text does not run together, if you had 
> only null alt you'd get "TextText" in the text view.

In this case it's not a decorative image. So there's no need for a null text
alternative.
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