[Bug 21493] Describe the longdesc link rot issue and suggest how to combat it

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21493

--- Comment #2 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> ---
Many have in the past maintained and paid for domains and web sites but ignored
maintaining the sites’ longdesc descriptions.

Thus, the kind of rot we see with - once functional - longdesc links, is not
really the same kind of rot that we see with "normal" anchor element links.
Also, due to the intimate relationship between longdesc description and image,
a rotten img@longdesc is more akin to a rotten img@src than it is akin to a
rotten anchor element.

It seems to me that it would benefit the cause to admit the problem. I don't
know, but there might be as many longdesc links that have rottened as there are
longdesc links which contains texts instead of an URI.

But I of course don’t mind if, in this spec, the problem is described only very
briefly, e.g. as an encouragement to authors to plan/implement robust longdesc
solutions that are likely to survive site maintainance/upgrades/etc.

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Received on Tuesday, 2 April 2013 00:23:44 UTC