- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:45:56 +0200
- To: "Lachlan Hunt" <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, public-html <public-html@w3.org>
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 08:10:33 +0200, Lachlan Hunt
<lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au> wrote:
>> However, if the area element has no href attribute, then the area
>> represented by the element cannot be selected, and the alt attribute
>> must be omitted.
>
> According to that requirement, using the image map would be
> non-conforming because the areas would not need to be hyperlinks and so
> they would need to use alt attributes without href attributes.
> Therefore, I think that's a mistake in the spec and that requirement
> should be removed.
If so, areas without href shouldn't be removed from the list of areas in
the "show the text" algorithm:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#image-maps
--
Simon Pieters
Opera Software
Received on Monday, 27 August 2007 11:46:24 UTC