- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:00:18 +0100
- To: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>, "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, Maurice Carey <maurice@thymeonline.com>, HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>, wai-xtech@w3.org
Jason White wrote: > The main problem with this proposal is that in processing the value of ALT, > the user agent would have to determine whether it is a URI, then retrieve the > associated resource if so, otherwise render the text of the attribute value. > This would also leave the value of ALT syntactically unconstrained, whereas > with a LONGDESC attribute, the syntax can be checked to ensure that it is a > URI. The difference in datatypes would be an issue alright (cheers, Gez ;-)) The two attributes do serve different purposes so they should probably be retained as separate entities for that reason. It was just a thought, and my main concern was reducing the load on the end user. <foodchain> <id ="user"> <id ="author"> <id= "pondlife"> <id ="vendor"> </foodchain> Cheers Josh
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