Re: Default-ALT rule in document <HEAD>

> to follow up on what Daniel Dardailler said:
> > 
> > Another convention I remember coming across regarding null ALT was an
> > optimization of the above where the convention could be stated at the
> > beginning of the HTML, in some kind of (I'm making that syntax up)
> >  <META name=ALT-CONVENTION content=NONE-MEANS-DECO>
> > 
> > and the rest of the file would not have an ALT attribute where ALT=""
> > would be used otherwise.
> > 
> 
> One might think that you could do this using CSS1 fragments in
> the document <HEAD>.  This violates the notion that CSS just
> adjusts frills and doesn't change content. The scenario you have
> raised here is a good example in which to test the idea that some
> pervasive generation-by-rule [or other abstraction] capability is
> required throughout, independent of what one considers to be
> "content" vs. "style."
 
This is a content rule, so it is normal that it is expressed in HTML,
and not in CSS. Why would we want to do otherwise ?

Received on Wednesday, 16 July 1997 09:16:44 UTC