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- Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:37:25 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12365 Summary: Add @fullsize to <img> Product: HTML WG Version: unspecified Platform: PC URL: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/embedded-content-1.html#t he-img-element OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch ReportedBy: xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org, public-html@w3.org Add an attribute named fullsize - or similar to the <img> element. * Most image gallery solutions offers users to click a small image in order to see a larger version of the image. * Many authors seem adds a reference to that <img> inside the <img> element. Problem: there are no attributes that can provide this function. And as a result, authors have created their own attributes. Or they have misused existing attributes. Typically, they have misused the @longdesc attribute. There are many examples of new and old image gallery scripts in PHP and Javascript which misuse @longdesc for this purpose. One example is the http://addfullsize.com/. What is unique about the man behind, Drew Wilson, is that he claims to have offered the idea about a @fullsize to HTML5's editor. And he relays on the mentioned web site that our editor asked him to get Web browser vendors to add support before he would add @fullsize to <img>. However, as authors care so much for validity that they use @longdesc instead, it does not seem neccessary to wait for browser support, anymore than we need to wait for browser support for @data-x, @data-y, @data-z. Features: an URL container. Every functionality other than that should be left to scripts. Benefits: @fullsize would offer authors a place to place a link to a larger version of the image. @fullsize would make authors stop misusing @longdesc for this purpose. Why not use @data-* instead? Because data-* is intended to "store custom data private to the page or application, for which there are no more appropriate attributes or elements". By adding @fullsize, we create a more appropriate element for a well known issue. -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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