- From: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:12:42 -0400
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, HTML WG Public List <public-html@w3.org>
> As a matter of language design, I think the absence of the alt > attribute is a sufficient syntactic signal of its absence. I think > adding more syntax for affirming its absence (e.g. noalt, missing, > etc.) is unhelpful. It would be unhelpful if we were to ask humans to type such syntax. It might be helpful if we *allowed* authoring tools to add it as a way of saying "Not my fault!", so that they would be less tempted to lie in more harmful ways. -jJ
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