On 2000-07-11, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: > At 08:53p +0200 07/11/2000, Jan Roland Eriksson didst inscribe upon >an electronic papyrus: > >>So the answer to your question would be ALT="" > > I *strongly* DISagree, for the following reasons: > > * MSIE displays "(Image)" instead of "" (when image loading is off) Then MSIE is broken. > * Lynx does not show <A HREF><IMG ALT=""></A> links If it's a link, the image is not for decoration only. Describe the link instead! > * Old versions of Lynx display "[IMAGE]" instead of "" Then it was broken. > If you use ALT=" " then these problems go away. > Therefore: > > * Important images get captions for ALT This discussion is about unimportant images. (See the subject.) -- Christian Ottosson http://www.sbc.su.se/~christian/Received on Wednesday, 12 July 2000 03:22:39 GMT
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