- From: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:50:14 -0700 (PDT)
- To: "'Laura Carlson'" <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, "'Leif Halvard Silli'" <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Cc: "'Steven Faulkner'" <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, "'HTMLWG WG'" <public-html@w3.org>, "'HTML Accessibility Task Force'" <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Laura Carlson wrote: > > > But @longdesc already does that. And @longdesc does it out of page > too. We need both. +1 to that Laura. @longdesc can point to both URIs *and* IDREFs, and in that instance is almost unique to all the other solutions being discussed. "I have begun to change my mind about longdesc. I used to accept that it wasn’t particularly smart design. It clearly has a bunch of problems, like being “dark metadata”, so is more likely to work when people are careful about making content and more likely to break if people do a slap-dash amateur job. But the only credible alternatives I have seen (like Kyle, things that impose constraints on design generally strike me as not really credible) are a suggestion to replace it with another attribute. With a new name. That does. THE. SAME. THING." - http://www.cssquirrel.com/2010/08/16/comic-update-alone-in-the-pitch-black-dark/#comment-32134 JF
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