- From: Nir Dagan <nir.dagan@econ.upf.es>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 01:23:17 GMT
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
I agree that PARAM is the best way to mark longdesc in OBJECT. The philosiphy of the PARAM element is to be able to include attributes to OBJECT. However since new object types may require different attributes, by using PARAM rather than attributes to OBJECT one wouldn't need to change the HTML specs whenever a new object type is born. Althogh longdesc may be considered generic, and not object-type dependent the absence of longdesc as an attribute justifies using the PARAM mechanism. Being somewhat pedantic, concerning an example previously on this mailing list, PARAM elements must come before any other content of the OBJECT. Regards, Nir Dagan Assistant Professor of Economics Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona (Spain) email: dagan@upf.es Website: http://www.econ.upf.es/%7Edagan/
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