Re: the market hasn't spoken - it hasn't bothered to listened [was Re: fear of "invisible metadata"]

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> On Jun 26, 2007, at 3:02 AM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
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>> <object data="foo.mpeg" alt="A kitten playing with yarn."></object>
>> <object data="foo.mpeg">A kitten playing with yarn.</object>
>>
>> Doesn't look abbreviated to me.
>>
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> I might be wrong here, but I suspect you created your example so  
> that their would be no difference between the @alt content and the  
> fallback content. While that's a nice example, my point was that we  
> might want to think through whether that is always the case (in  
> which case @alt is not needed on the modern elements) or whether we  
> need to provide different mechanisms for these (possibly) different  
> semantics (@alt as an abbreviated alternate to non-text media and  
> fallback for non-text media).

Perhaps I should provide an alternative example just to illustrate  
what I'm trying to say.

<object
	data="foo.mpeg"
	alt="My kitten fluffy playing with yarn."
	title="fluffy playing with yarn"
  > Fluffy, still only a few inches tall, is playing with a red ball  
of yarn that has to 3 times her size. She has just fallen on her back  
and it looks like the ball of yarn is crushing her. But she's really  
just having fun. </object>

Do the two character strings look different to you in this example?

Take care,
Rob