spec/Overview.html 1.1659 2488 update the note about longdesc='' to be

update the note about longdesc='' to be more accurate, since longdesc=''
was considered during the past year. (whatwg r2488)

alt
http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.1.1659.html#attr-img-alt

http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.diff.html
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.1658&r2=1.1659&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=2487&to=2488

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   attribute's value are described <a href=#alt>in the next
   section</a>.<p class=XXX>There has been some suggestion that the <code title="">longdesc</code> attribute from HTML4, or some other
   mechanism that is more powerful than <code title="">alt=""</code>,
-  should be included. This has not yet been considered.<p>The <code><a href=#the-img-element>img</a></code> must not be used as a layout tool. In
+  should be included. This has been considered and rejected in the
+  past, but may be considered again in the future.<p>The <code><a href=#the-img-element>img</a></code> must not be used as a layout tool. In
   particular, <code><a href=#the-img-element>img</a></code> elements should not be used to display
   fully transparent images, as they rarely convey meaning and rarely
   add anything useful to the document.</p><hr><p>When an <code><a href=#the-img-element>img</a></code> is created with a <code title=attr-img-src><a href=#attr-img-src>src</a></code> attribute, and whenever the <code title=attr-img-src><a href=#attr-img-src>src</a></code> attribute is set subsequently, the

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