Re: handling fallback content for still images

At 22:47 -0700 UTC, on 2007-07-02, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

> On Jul 2, 2007, at 10:17 PM, Robert Burns wrote:

[...]

> I haven't really made an argument for or against <picture> myself.
> However, to make the case for it, you'd need to show how to achieve
> the following with a single markup fragment -- how <picture> would be
> defined and what markup you would use to get these effects:

[...]

> 4) Would show the image in currently existing graphical browsers that
> don't recognize the new tag (presumably by falling back to an <img>
> or <object>).
> 5) Would present the non-image fallback content in existing visual
> text-only browsers (such as Lynx) that do not support the new tag.
> 6) Would present the non-image fallback content in existing screen
> reader/browser combos that do not support the new tag.

Yeah, those are the big ones. Mainly, how to not have <picture>'s textual
fallback rendered in pre-HTML5 UAs.

An attempt at finding a possible solution:
<http://santek.no-ip.org/~st/tests/picturetag/>.


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Sander Tekelenburg
The Web Repair Initiative: <http://webrepair.org/>

Received on Tuesday, 3 July 2007 09:33:59 UTC