- From: Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:57:10 +1100
- To: wai-xtech@w3.org
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 06:48:54PM -0500, David Poehlman wrote: > Surely, there is no element or attribute anywhere in any spec that would > say, when you publish your documents, not only must you use an alt attrib, > you also must write into it that the image is not important if it is not > important. The proposal is: ALT="text" means that "text" is an alternative to the image. alt="" means that the image is purely decorative or used only as formatting. Omitting @alt entirely is not allowed, as a matter of syntax, as in HTML 4.01. There is nothing new or unusual here; this is how specifications prescribe syntax and semantics. Of course, there might be substantive objections to the proposal, but this isn't one of them.
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