Re: 48-Hour Consensus Call: InstateLongdesc CP Update

On Sep 17, 2012, at 13:50 , Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie> wrote:

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> Then I think that they may think that @longdesc is fundamentally flawed and are taking a year zero approach (that the new ARIA spec offers).
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I seem to recall from the mists of time on this discussion, that some indeed argued longdesc was not only flawed in design (possibly because it didn't go, as I recall, through very much review by the HTML group at the time), but also polluted in practice...

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Monday, 17 September 2012 20:58:01 UTC