Re: COUGAR: ALT and <INPUT TYPE="IMAGE">

• From: Carl Morris <msftrncs@htcnet.com>
• Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 18:40:58 -0600
• To: "WWW HTML List" <www-html@w3.org>
• Message-Id: <199610310047.SAA26802@inet.htcnet.com>

| Seems very sensible. Should be an ALT anywhere there's a SRC,
| I guess, as you can't tie the presence of ALT to the _value_ of
| another attribute in the DTD, only in an application.

Frankly, I would rather see ALT fade away, and have people instead use
a construct like OBJECT, where much more markup is available in the
alternate version.

Received on Wednesday, 30 October 1996 19:41:01 UTC