- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:34:49 +0200
- To: "Olivier GENDRIN" <olivier.gendrin@gmail.com>, "Sander Tekelenburg" <st@isoc.nl>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:26:02 +0200, Olivier GENDRIN <olivier.gendrin@gmail.com> wrote: > On 6/25/07, Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl> wrote: >> >> At 03:04 +0200 UTC, on 2007-06-25, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> > 1. The alt attribute replaces the image if for some reason it is not >> > rendered. >> >> Is it not possible to upgrade <img> to a container, so that richer >> fallback >> content becomes possible? It would remove the practcal length >> restrictions >> on ALT, and would allow the textual alternative to contain markup. > > You could use <object> for such cases. If you could rely on IE not mangling it :( Making img non-empty would require changing existing parsing. That is not impossible, of course... cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk chaals@opera.com Catch up: Speed Dial http://opera.com
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