- From: David Poehlman <david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:15:03 -0500
- To: Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net>
- Cc: wai-xtech@w3.org
In that case, I agree with the proposa. On Nov 27, 2007, at 8:57 PM, Jason White wrote: 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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