- From: Gregg Vanderheiden <po@trace.wisc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 22:50:54 -0500
- To: "'dd@w3.org'" <dd@w3.org>, WAI Working Group <w3c-wai-wg@w3.org>
You dont use src="" You use an image but one which essentially has no size. <A HREF="indextext.html"><IMG SRC="/images/invis.gif" ALT="To Text-Only version." BORDER=0></A> Gregg -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Dardailler [SMTP:danield@w3.org] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 1997 4:11 AM To: WAI Working Group Subject: Re: Invisible D link. Jason wrote: > On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Gregg Vanderheiden wrote: > > > One way would be to put the D-Link as the alt text to an invisible graphic. > > then it would only show up when graphics were turned off ---- but > > unfortunately you would have a second graphic marker...... > How would today's browsers react to the following? > > <a href="description.html" class=longdesc> <img src="" alt="[D]"> </a> In Netscape 3, it shows the missing image icon. The specs for "Relative Uniform Resource Locators" (rfc1808, at ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1808.txt) says that empty urls directly map to the base url, so I think what happens is that "" is taken as the current directory, and since it's not an image, it breaks.
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