- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:48:01 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Jason White wrote: > > Section 3.14.2 (current CVS checkout): "When the src attribute is set, > the user agent must immediately begin to download the specified > resource, unless the user agent cannot support images, or its support > for images has been disabled." > > This appears to exclude the possibility of a UA that allows the user to > select interactively which images to download. Lynx supports this by > treating iamges as links, with @alt as the link text. Other user > interfaces are conceivable, however. > > My question is whether the spec should exclude this type of behaviour, > as it appears to do, or whether the "must not" in the above should be > qualified further. > > One could construe "its support for images has been disabled" as > covering this case, but I think this exception is more likely to be > interpreted as applying only when image rendering has been turned off > entirely, leaving open the issue noted above. Thanks. Updated the spec. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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