- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:30:34 -0400
- To: Matt Morgan-May <mattmay@adobe.com>
- CC: "'HTML WG'" <public-html@w3.org>
Matt Morgan-May wrote: >> The *entire* point of <img> is to... display an image. > > And the point of displaying an image is to _communicate information_. That's one possible point, yes. There are others (e.g. screensavers don't usually communicate much information but can be used to create a certain ambiance). Heck, the same is true of a lot of art in general. -Boris P.S. cc list savagely trimmed, since I doubt most of the people on it really cared about the use cases for images...
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