- From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 23:12:00 -0000
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
"David Woolley" <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:200302052104.h15L4vH02190@djwhome.demon.co.uk... > > > provide for alternative text - SVG uses child elements instead which > > So does HTML, it's just that browser developers don't really see > object other than as an ActiveX container, so images as object are > badly handled. Images as objects are badly specified though, since the UA cannot know it's an image until after it's performed an HTTP GET on the url, it can guess it might be, but cannot know. Equally, what happens with an HTML document returned with a 404 status code returned by the server, should the object fallback be used, or should the HTML document be used? What about other status codes? At least with image, you know the author intended it to be an image, and not just about anything. Jim.
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