- From: Nir Dagan <nir.dagan@econ.upf.es>
- Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 21:49:58 GMT
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
alt="" makes the image disappear in browsers that don't display images. while ommiting the alt altogether makes the word IMAGE appear instead. This applies to Lynx and Opera. With Netscape and explorer both option are the same. Writing alt="image: vertical rule" makes the backgroung of the vertical rule as wide the text "image vertical rule" in Opera. So it becomes a vertical "band"... The "band" effect also happens with no alt as the word IMAGE takes some space too. To make a long story short alt="" is a must for all images that serve no purpose beyond formatting. Concerning the title attribute, the specs. don't say how it should be displayed. Therefore I hardly use it. I use it rarely and carefully in anchors where the display is more or less predictable, and in ACRONYM and ABBR in the first time the abbreviation appears in the document. I also never nest titled elements. Regards, Nir Dagan Assistant Professor of Economics Universidad Pompeu Fabra Barcelona (Spain) website: http://www.nirdagan.com email: nir.dagan@econ.upf.es "There is nothing quite so practical as a good theory." -- A. Einstein
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