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Re: Need some help

From: Daniel Dardailler <danield@w3.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 13:19:14 +0200
Message-Id: <199707111119.NAA13729@www47.inria.fr>
To: WAI Working Group <w3c-wai-wg@w3.org>

Gregg wrote:

> A browser COULD though, detect if there is a description in a
> graphic and automatically treat this as if a DESC= link were in the
> <image> - and if requested it would pull it out of the picture
> rather than asking the server for it.

Yes, but the browser has no interest in fetching the bits (big) part
of the image if it is only interested in the metadata part (title,
desc, etc).

A way to ask only that part to the server is needed.
Received on Friday, 11 July 1997 07:19:17 EDT

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