- From: Claus Färber <list-w3c-html-tidy@faerber.muc.de>
- Date: 01 Oct 1999 00:00:00 +0000
- To: html-tidy@w3.org
Michael Nahrath <subotnik@gmx.de> schrieb/wrote: > alt="" _is_ the correct alternate-text for an img that is only > presentational. And how is tidy supposed to know that it is? In most cases, the author just did not care about alt text. > If the Image is a spacer alt=" " may be more adequate, if > it is a dot maybe alt="*" is better. No, in this case it would be <li> instead of <img ...>. > 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. Well, tidy can't correct all errors; especially errors where mandatory information is missing. -- Claus Andre Faerber <http://www.faerber.muc.de> PGP: ID=1024/527CADCD FP=12 20 49 F3 E1 04 9E 9E 25 56 69 A5 C6 A0 C9 DC
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