- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:27:17 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Christoph P?per wrote: > 2007-12-11 05:56 Ian Hickson: > > On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Christoph Paeper wrote: > > > > > > Would the following be inadequate usage according to this specification? > > > > > > <a href="foo.img"><samp><img src="foo.t.img" alt="..."/></samp></a> > > > > > Yes. The former would be appropriate if a computer output the given image > > and that was the subject under discussion; > > That means screenshots, doesn't it? Amongst other things, yes. > > I'm not convinced that there's really a need to unambiguously mark up > > thumbnails as distinct from anything else, though. > > Neither am I, but there are programs or browser plugins that could make > good use out of this information. OTOH it might fit better into the > |rel| (or |rev|) attribute of the surrounding |a| (or it's done by a > predefined class for |img|). I suppose. > Another question would be whether the linked image had to be the > original (e.g. the full-size screenshot) or just a better representation > of it (e.g. the larger scan of a book cover). Yeah. Flickr, for instance, links thumbnails to slightly bigger images to slightly bigger images, etc. > PS: Thanks for the personal CC, I've not been watching the list for a while. np. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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