- From: David MacDonald <David100@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:25:34 -0500
- To: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- CC: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>, public-html@w3.org
I agree with aura on this... these webmasters went the extra mile to make their content accessible, and conforming to great financial expense and effort... they should not be punished, by having to rip out their code and start all over again. They should be applauded. David MacDonald www.eramp.com On 13-Feb-12, at 7:53 AM, Laura Carlson wrote: > Hi Charles, > > Silvia wrote: > >> The @longdesc is only deprecated, > > Jonas' proposal is misleading. It is titled "Keep the longdesc > attribute for the img element deprecated". However, it does not > deprecate longdesc. It obsoletes it entirely. The concept "deprecate" > does not exist in HTML5. > > According to the HTML5 specification obsolete features must not be > used by authors [1]. Obsolete features trigger errors. An error for a > proper longdesc is simply wrong. People should not be reprimanded for > doing the right thing. On the contrary, they should be applauded. > > Best Regards, > Laura > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110525/obsolete.html#non-conforming-features > -- > Laura L. Carlson > >
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