- From: Andrew Sidwell <takkaria@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 15:45:21 +0100
- To: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Robert Burns wrote: > [I]t strikes me that, if its useful to add > a short alternate to an <img> element that perhaps already has a lengthy > and semantically rich description as the target of a @longdesc > attribute. then maybe it would be useful to do the same for other > embedded content elements. I think you misrepresent (unintentionally, I assume) the way round that things occured. First, there was alt="", then longdesc="" was added (in HTML 4). That is, longdesc was introduced to fix the shortcomings of alt for those who needed it; alt wasn't introduced to add a shorter version of longdesc. Andrew Sidwell
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