- From: Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl>
- Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:44:10 +0200
At 07:45 +0200 UTC, on 2007-04-22, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:43:14 +0200, Thomas Broyer <t.broyer at gmail.com> wrote: > >> 2007/4/19, Matthew Paul Thomas: > >> Thunderbird allows you to set 'alt' ... >> When you drag/drop an image into a message, the default is alt="". > > Setting a default of alt="" is bad behaviour Indeed. As is careless reuse of previously entered data. See ATAG checkpoint 3.4: <http://www.w3.org/TR/ATAG10/#check-no-default-alt> [...] > The application should simply leave out the alt attribute. This makes it >trivially easy to build a repair application where one is required or >desired, and has no practical drawback if the error is left in (given the >state of HTML email standardisation...). Given that given that might be the best approach, yes. -- Sander Tekelenburg The Web Repair Initiative: <http://webrepair.org/>
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