- From: Maurice <maurice@thymeonline.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 13:23:28 -0400
- To: HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
On 5/1/07 6:49 PM, "James Graham" <jg307@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > Philip & Le Khanh wrote: >> >> >> >> Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >> >>> <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-img> >>> >>> "The img element represents a piece of text with an alternate >>> graphical representation. The text is given by the alt attribute, >>> which must be present, and the URI to the graphical representation of >>> that text is given in the src attribute, which must also be present. >> >> A more contorted definition would be hard to conceive. The graphical >> representation is referred to in the prose as "alternate", yet >> the ALT attribute specifies the text. If the semantics of IMG >> were really to be as proposed, a more natural representation >> would be : >> >> <IMG alt="http://www.whatwg.org/logo.png"> >> The WHATWG logo >> </IMG> > > Indeed Maciej has raised this very issue on the WHATWG list. However > your proposed solution is not backward compatible and so will not be > implemented in UAs. Isn't it possible to use the object/embed tag to insert an image and have the fallback content/text within? <object src="photo.jpg">this is a photo</object> -- :: thyme online ltd :: po box cb13650 nassau the bahamas :: website: http://www.thymeonline.com/ :: tel: 242 327-1864 fax: 242 377 1038
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