Re: sellability of D-link vs. LONGDESC

> This demonstrates that we need to baseline some concrete LONGDESC
> proposal including behavior.

I think the HTML4 spec can describe possible behavior but should not
mandate any.

> When I hear Jason White supporting LONGDESC, I believe he is
> talking about a feature where when the image is not displayed,
> the content of the resource pointed to by the LONGDESC is inlined
> in the space that would otherwise be filled by the image.  A
> link-traversal and page-change is not desired to get to the
> verbal guide to the MAPped links.  It wants to be automatic and
> inlined.

I'm not sure of that, Jason ?
 
> That is why I asked earlier what the proposal is.

It's to associate a generic long description (a URI) with an image in
the markup.

Whether it's rendered inline, on demand, using a popup, a voice
command, is secondary (a bit like ALT is being rendered in as a
tooltip on some platform or in place of the image).

The browser guidelines can be more precise about that, of course.

Received on Wednesday, 17 September 1997 09:15:38 UTC