- From: Michael Nahrath <subotnik@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 01:49:04 +0200
- To: jelks@jelks.nu, html-tidy@w3.org
> > 1) If there is no ALT attribute for an image, have Tidy put in an 'alt=""'. > (Note: this might cause some people problems, since they might want omitted ALTs > to be flagged by a validator as a reminder for "Whoops, you forgot to put in > alternate text". So perhaps it should be a configurable option: > "empty-alt-attributes: yes" or some such.) alt="" _is_ the correct alternate-text for an img that is only presentational. If the Image is a spacer alt=" " may be more adequate, if it is a dot maybe alt="*" is better. It _is_ important to make meaningless images unseen in a text-only browser, otherwise it would show an [image] or [spacer.gif] for each spacer. And: <img ...> without alt is not valid html 4.0. Greeting, Michi -- wir feiern ein Liebesfest und draussen ist Krieg wir vergessen was um uns ist es gibt uns doch nur den Rest wir machen lieber die Augen zu wir machen lieber die Augen zu ... (SPLIFF 1982)
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