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Re: [html4all] ALT issue redux

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:37:01 +0100
To: HTML4All <list@html4all.org>
Cc: wai-xtech@w3.org
Message-ID: <op.t50zzzdk64w2qv@annevk-t60.oslo.opera.com>

On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:22:37 +0100, Patrick H. Lauke  
<redux@splintered.co.uk> wrote:
> And possibly: unless I'm misunderstanding the idea of
> backwards-compatibility. Is it "HTML5 browsers will be able to make
> sense of XHTML1/HTML4 documents" (my understanding) or "XHTML1/HTML4
> browsers will be able to work with HTML5 documents"? Even if it's the
> latter, the fact that browsers don't throw an error when an XHTML1 image
> is missing the mandatory @alt could be explained as backwards compatible
> by the WG.

It's both actually, for some value of XHTML1/HTML4 browsers.


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