- From: Jon Barnett <jonbarnett@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 21:27:19 -0500
> > Options might include "image 2 - vista of the canyon" or "image 2" (where > the text already says what that is) or all kinds of other things. > "noalt" is a good idea and leaves no ambiguity. > > Except that it breaks all backward compatibility. Can you please explain how? <img src="grandcanyon.jpg" alt="image 2 - vista of the canyon"> doesn't help the ambiguity. <img src="grandcanyon.jpg" title="image 2- vista of the canyon"> is more appropriate. The image does not represent that text, that text describes the image. The difference may seem subtle, but there is a difference. <img src="rssicon" alt="RSS"> is a case where the text serves no purpose than to represent the text "RSS". Lynx can happily replace the image with the text as if the image doesn't exist. In the grand canyon example, Lynx should at indicate that the image does exist. This difference may be minor, but HTML doesn't explicitly tell authors how to mark up images that don't actually represent text and it's a distinction authors want to make. If "noalt" isn't acceptable, then let me suggest the "rel" attribute (with a couple suggested values). If the "rel" attribute was allowed on the IMG element, it could tell the relationship of the img to the document -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20070422/a523bbcd/attachment.htm>
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