- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:38:57 +0200
- To: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Cc: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis, Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:33:27 +0100: > On 22 Sep 2010, at 07:14, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: >> On 22 Sep 2010, at 02:08, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > "HTML4 says fullsize should link to a descrip. A larger image is > conceptually the same. it's a compromise. I wont be changing it, i'll > just release version 2 :)" > > http://www.twitlonger.com/show/65877u > > I'm not sure the spec can easily protect itself against this sort of > hostile misreading though (it's fairly clear in HTML4 that "longdesc" > is for /text/ alternatives), and it does sound like he's saying the > next iteration will use "data-*". He could circumvent it by making sure the URL point to a HTML document which as _both_ a bigger picture as well a long description. -- lh
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