- From: Alexey Feldgendler <alexey@feldgendler.ru>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:01:45 +0600
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:44:29 +0600, Anne van Kesteren <fora at annevankesteren.nl> wrote: >> I wonder why alt is a required attribute for IMG in HTML while an >> empty value is allowed. > Because an empty value means that there is no alternate text and no > attribute at > all means that alternate text is missing. (Which is clearly not what you > want.) The same could be said about title="", for example: "An empty value means that there is no title, and no attribute at all means that the title is missing." But HTML doesn't declare the title attribute as required. -- Opera M2 8.5 on Debian Linux 2.6.12-1-k7 * Origin: X-Man's Station [ICQ: 115226275] <alexey at feldgendler.ru>
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