- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:28:53 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > Quoting Alexey Feldgendler <alexey at feldgendler.ru>: > > I'm not speaking about <img> with specified but empty alt -- this one is > > certainly presentational, and it's OK to require explicit alt="" for this > > case. I'm speaking about <img> with totally omitted alt, which is currently > > invalid. I propose to allow it and have the user agent derive some > > information from the image URL. This will better reflect the real world > > situation: many authors actually omit alt (which results in an invalid > > page) when they actually should have written it. > > HTML5 is not about making the world valid. No, but it _is_ about making authoring easier and being realistic. I've considered making alt="" and omitting alt be conformant equivalents. I haven't really thought much about it yet though. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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