Re: Drop longdesc, get aria-describedat?

Quoting Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>:

>> Absolutely! What I continue to question is why we are hell-bent on pushing
> this into the realm of the Accessibility APIs?
>
> i guess what you mean is why push it into the realm of AAPI support only,
> without other general UI support.

Yes, this is what I meant.  the problem is not with the @longdesc  
attribute, but what is (and isn't) done with it, the use-cases (to me)  
clearly show that it requires a broad UI support (beyond simply AAPI  
support),

JF