Re: img::longdesc: must it be a separate page?

Matthew Smith wrote:
> Is there any reason why longdesc (img) cannot point to an anchor within
> a page?  My thought was to have the long description at the very end of
> the page, with a link back to an anchor where the image is.
> 
> My reasoning is to improve performance by reducing the number of GETs.

I did this once in the case of a page that had a description of a 
painting in it, I gave that description an ID and made that the 
longdesc. I was quite chuffed with the economy of this, but I think I 
would prefer to have the extra GET in cases where the description 
doesn't "naturally" appear in the first page anyway.

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Regards,
Jon Hanna

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Benjamin Franklin

Received on Monday, 6 June 2005 10:05:28 UTC