- From: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:01:59 +1000
- To: "Charles McCathieNevile" <chaals@opera.com>
- Cc: "Olivier GENDRIN" <olivier.gendrin@gmail.com>, "Sander Tekelenburg" <st@isoc.nl>, public-html@w3.org
It would be nice (speaking as an author) to have <img> aligned with the new <video> and <audio> - be easier to learn for new authors too. I suspect it won't work as intended in current/older UAs (they will likely render the fallback content) and we'd need @alt until AT catches up (and it will be a very long time before people upgrade). Still, it would be good if the spec allowed for it so that one future day we can use <img> consistently ... the proposal to add <image> (separate to <img>) has merit I believe... leaving <img> as is for compatibility and introducing <image> for consistency with <video> and <audio>. I vote for this option. On 6/25/07, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com> wrote: > > 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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