Re: Adaptive Image Element Proposal

Laura Carlson, Fri, 7 Sep 2012 16:46:14 -0500:

>> It is a move towards allowing alternative text via fallback markup
>> content (as opposed to just via attributes), and hence a postive step.
> 
> An element like <desc> would provide a semantic holder for rich text
> on-page long descriptions.
>
> However, it would be hamstrung to on-page descriptions. It would not
> be a direct off-page long description that could be applied globally
> across multiple sites, or across an entire site, or across a subset of
> pages.
> http://www.d.umn.edu/~lcarlson/research/constriants/separate-doc.html

You say that a @longdesc can serve as discrete link, right? And, yes it 
can.

I don't support <desc>. And never loved that idea. And after this 
debate, I think I am ready to limit the fallback of <picture> to 
alternative text, by what I mean to limit it to "short description". 
Because, like Peter said: by offering alternative text in the form of 
fallback content/elements, one could e.g. declare the language for 
different words in the fallback. This is not possible if we limit the 
fallback to <img> alone. 

It would also be possible to include an anchor element to a longer 
description.

I would suggest that the spec should allow authors a choice: Either to 
use <img> (that is: @longdesc and @alt) for the alternative text and 
longdesc link. But that they also should be permitted to place the 
same, short text in mark-up in the fallback. What do you think about 
such an idea? 
-- 
Leif Halvard Silli

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