- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:34:49 +0000
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- CC: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, public-html@w3.org
Sam Ruby wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: >> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Joshue O Connor wrote: > [snip] >>> So there is more to this footage than the above quote implies. >> > [snip] >> The longdesc="" attribute, in theory, solves the problem it sets out >> to solve. The problem isn't with the theory of the attribute. The >> problem is that in practice, in deployed content, on the Web, it is >> unusable. > > Guys, we seem to be in an endless loop. People asking variations of the > same questions over and over, and Ian providing variations of the same > answers over and over again. > > Given that I am not seeing any new data being presented, what I would > like to ask is that each participant in this discussion focus either on > specific suggestions for changes to existing proposals, or on > volunteering to produce a new change proposal on this matter (such as > Maciej has done). > > Joshue: this change proposal is on a wiki: > > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/longdesc > > If you think that there are specific rebuttals to Ian's proposal that > can be added which would strengthen the case, then please add them. Yup, I will be offline for the rest of the day, but will tune back in towards the end of the week. Cheers Josh
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