Re: ALT specification

Jonathan L Neuenschwander writes:

> I'll second the plea for more than just text inside ALT.  One thing I've 
> discovered users seem to expect is that an imagemap be replaced with a 
> a menu when images are turned off.  

Both of these capabilities are provided through the use of "figures"
in the proposed HTML 3.0 specification, which you can see at:

   http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people/dsr/html/Contents.html

One of the examples given in the section on figures is:
   
   Company home page:
<FIG SRC="mainmenu.gif">
 <H1>Access HP from Hewlett Packard</H1>
 <P>Select between:
 <UL>
  <LI><A HREF="guide.html" SHAPE="rect 30,200,60,16">Access Guide</A>
  <LI><A HREF="about.html" SHAPE="rect 100,200,50,16">About HP</A>
  <LI><A HREF="guide.html" SHAPE="rect 160,200,30,16">News</A>
  <LI><A HREF="guide.html" SHAPE="rect 200,200,50,16">Products</A>
  <LI><A HREF="guide.html" SHAPE="rect 260,200,80,16">Worldwide Contacts</A>
 </UL>
</FIG>

Notice the nice browser-independent way of specifying client-side imagemaps,
and the ability to use HTML as "alternate" text by placing it between the
<FIG> and </FIG> tags. (It's much better than the old <IMG> tag.)

For more information on the proposed <FIG> tag, see:

   http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people/dsr/html/figures.html

Gerald
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Gerald Oskoboiny  <gerald@cs.ualberta.ca>  http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~gerald/

Received on Tuesday, 20 June 1995 05:29:29 UTC