- From: Daniel Dardailler <danield@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 10:45:51 +0100
- To: "jonathan chetwynd" <jay@peepo.com>
- cc: "Silas S. Brown" <ssb22@cam.ac.uk>, "Al Gilman" <asgilman@iamdigex.net>, w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org
> I would like to be able to inline link to say disney pages using a disney > image. I'm not sure in your particular case, but in general, the main reason people shouldn't do <IMG SRC=http://www.remote.com/path/img.gif ALT=something> is not copyright but the fact that - you don't know (unless it's explicitly stated) if /path/img.gif is a stable URI or just an implementation detail on the site (and the fact that references img.gif on remote.com is stable has nothing to do with that) - even the URI doesn't change, the content of the image might change (size, pixels: there goes your ALT) - the www.company.com server might be down or much slower than yours, and if everybody generalizes this technique, users of the web will be faced with the lowest quality denominator syndrom: the bandwidth of one given page will be the bandwitdh of the slowest resource on that page: a scarry thought.
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