- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 19:08:14 +0300
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
Philip Jägenstedt Wed Aug 1 05:05:15 PDT 2012: > On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:03:02 +0200, Steve Faulkner wrote: > >> title has differing semantics to alt. In situations where alt it not >> present on an img but title is, in webkit based browsers the title >> attribute content is displayed on mouse hover and is also displayed in >> place of the image when images are disabled or not available. This >> implementation appears to contradict the must requirement in the spec. >> >> User agents must not present the contents of the alt attribute in the >> same way as content of the title attribute. >> >> As there is no way visual distinction between title content being >> displayed and of alt content in this case. > > To be very clear, you agree with the spec, think that WebKit is wrong and > would not offer any applause if Opera were to use the title attribute to > replace images when images are disabled and there is no alt attribute? [I suppose 'the spec' means the W3 HTML5 spec?] Question: I would be rather simple for Opera, would it not, to add some CSS that makes the @title be used as @alt replacement when the @alt is lacking? -- leif halvard silli
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