- From: John Foliot <foliot@wats.ca>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 17:05:19 -0700
- To: "'Andrew Sidwell'" <w3c@andrewsidwell.co.uk>, "'Ian Hickson'" <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: "'Maciej Stachowiak'" <mjs@apple.com>, <public-html@w3.org>, "'W3C WAI-XTECH'" <wai-xtech@w3.org>, <wai-liaison@w3.org>, "'HTML4All'" <list@html4all.org>
Andrew Sidwell wrote:
> John Foliot wrote:
>> Really? As an avid follower of *all* of the postings to both the
>> public-html and wai-xtech mailing lists (two official means to
>> discuss
>> this
>> topic) I have not heard a peep from Ian. If these proposals have
>> surfaced in your back-room IRC channel or on the what-wg mailing
>> list than I'm sorry, I read neither as they are outside of the
>> official W3C process.
>
> Please see
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008May/0073.html for
> ths post in question.
>
I stand corrected and apologize for not remembering this post. Ian's
suggestion certainly seems reasonable, and far superior to an optional @alt.
I note from his example that the text equivalent is the text inside of the
<legend> element - is it reasonable to presume then that:
<figure>
<img src="1100670787_6a7c664aef.jpg" alt="Photo"
importantimage="importantimage"/>
</figure>
Would be non-conformant, as there is no longer any text directly associated
with the image in question?
I suppose that a fair bit of useful data is already being transmitted simply
by the fact that the image is identified as a photo* and that it is
important, and so I guess it /could/ be considered complete, although less
than useful.
Is introducing a new attribute [importantimage] better than sticking with
existing attributes and simply introducing new, reserved values? From an
implementation perspective, which is easier to add to future user-agents?
(* Photo. What if, instead it is an illustration, or a chart, or some other
form of iconic or visual marker? Would a collection of reserved values be
appropriate here?)
JF
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