> Classes and IDs are also free of any defined semantics. >> Using well-known-classes [...] > There is no such thing as a well known class. Any tool that makes > assumptions about classes is broken. Not if there's a profile attribute on the <head> it recognizes. >>> <div class="content"><div id="main"> At least one of those <div>s >>> is redundant, if not both. >> content indicates the portion of the document that is relatively >> unique >> (not part of the banner/head or the footer). > Says who? It could equally well delimit a span containing the protein > content of a recipe. Says my profile (to be written). > Ok, so the image does need reasonably alternate text. I would suggest: > > alt="There was an illustration in the Times today, depicting the > corner of a building with a single vertically sliding window, open, > with two hands having apparently just thrust a two-drawer file > cabinet out of the building. The file cabinet is upside down and > its bottom drawer is open, with papers and files falling out." > > The important thing to note is that the image is conveying the > delightful illustration in this case, it is not conveying simply "a > file cabinet being thrown out the window". The alternative text is supposed to convey the same information as the picture, no? I don't see how people seeing the picture would be able to tell it was an illustration in the Times. > your first paragraph looks like: "A file cabinet being thrown out the > windowJon Keegan, New York Times". (Yes, that's "windowJon".) Ta. Fixed. > The "(left)" part of the paragraph should probably be changed, too, > [...] Possibly a better solution would be to make the > text "delightful illustration" link to the image using a fragment > identifier. Ta. Fixed. > Basically, we need more semantics. Always. -- Aaron Swartz [http://www.aaronsw.com/]Received on Monday, 20 January 2003 12:58:17 GMT
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