- From: Dao Gottwald <dao@design-noir.de>
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:29:21 +0200
- To: public-html@w3.org
"This collection causes the contents of a remote resource to be embedded in the document in place of the element's content. If accessing the remote resource fails, for whatever reason (network unavailable, no resource available at the URI given, inability of the user agent to process the type of resource) or an associated ismap <http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-csImgMap.html#adef_csImgMap_ismap> attribute fails, the content of the element must be processed instead. Note that this behavior makes documents far more robust, and gives much better opportunities for accessible documents than the |longdesc| attribute present in earlier versions of XHTML, since it allows the description of the resource to be included in the document itself, rather than in a separate document." .... which seems very plausible to me. Contrary to letting every element have a href attribute, it's backwards-compatible by design. Are there any plans to inherit that from the XHTML2 working draft? --Dao
Received on Thursday, 29 March 2007 00:59:10 UTC