Default-ALT rule in document <HEAD>

to follow up on what Daniel Dardailler said:
> 
> Another convention I remember coming across regarding null ALT was an
> optimization of the above where the convention could be stated at the
> beginning of the HTML, in some kind of (I'm making that syntax up)
>  <META name=ALT-CONVENTION content=NONE-MEANS-DECO>
> 
> and the rest of the file would not have an ALT attribute where ALT=""
> would be used otherwise.
> 

One might think that you could do this using CSS1 fragments in
the document <HEAD>.  This violates the notion that CSS just
adjusts frills and doesn't change content.  The scenario you have
raised here is a good example in which to test the idea that some
pervasive generation-by-rule [or other abstraction] capability is
required throughout, independent of what one considers to be
"content" vs. "style."

--
Al Gilman

Received on Friday, 11 July 1997 11:59:45 UTC