- From: Maurice Carey <maurice@thymeonline.com>
- Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:43:55 -0400
- To: HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
On 10/8/07 3:19 PM, "John Foliot" <foliot@wats.ca> wrote: >Fair enough, but they are also working on a principle of avoiding "bloat", >and of "paving cowpaths". alt="spacer.gif" appears 50 times on http://www.hookmitchell.com/ that counts as bloat in my book. >I have floated the idea of a reserved value for alt (I suggested alt="_none" >[with the underscore]) alt="_none" also counts as "bloat" to me. If the image has NO VALUE to anyone why does it still need an alt? >User Agents could be configured to deal with >an expected value such as this consistently (as could Adaptive Technology), If they can be configured to deal with alt="_none" why can't they just be configured to deal with an image with no alt value? -- :: 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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