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Re: "alt" attribute required by XHTML 1.0

From: Frank Boumphrey <bckman@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 13:53:13 -0400
Message-ID: <001d01c13633$a3188650$f5cd79a5@D1C4FN01>
To: "Matt Brooks" <matt@mbjlp.com>, <www-html@w3.org> 
They are also required in HTML *.* !

Frank
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Matt Brooks 
  To: www-html@w3.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 12:43 PM
  Subject: "alt" attribute required by XHTML 1.0


  I was surprised to see that the ALT attribrute is required by the XHTML 1.0 Transitional DTD. I was going to use XHTML 1.0 Transitional in a web development project, but have now changed my mind because the ALT attributes are not needed on every image.

   - Matt
Received on Wednesday, 5 September 2001 13:53:14 GMT

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