- From: Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:42:34 +1000
- To: public-html@w3.org
Section 3.14.2 (current CVS checkout): "When the src attribute is set, the user agent must immediately begin to download the specified resource, unless the user agent cannot support images, or its support for images has been disabled." This appears to exclude the possibility of a UA that allows the user to select interactively which images to download. Lynx supports this by treating iamges as links, with @alt as the link text. Other user interfaces are conceivable, however. My question is whether the spec should exclude this type of behaviour, as it appears to do, or whether the "must not" in the above should be qualified further. One could construe "its support for images has been disabled" as covering this case, but I think this exception is more likely to be interpreted as applying only when image rendering has been turned off entirely, leaving open the issue noted above.
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