- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:44:21 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, Pentasis wrote: > > I notice that it says in the spec under the img-section: > > "There has been some suggestion that the longdesc attribute from HTML4, > or some other mechanism that is more powerful than alt="", should be > included. This has not yet been considered." > > May I ask why it has not been considered (yet)? It has, actually, but some people disagree with the conclusion. I've updated the text accordingly. On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > > A rough summary of the currently dominant view in WHATWG would be that > visible descriptions are more useful than invisible descriptions and > that in any case LONGDESC is poisoned by real-world abuse ( > http://blog.whatwg.org/the-longdesc-lottery ). Pretty much. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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