- From: Philip TAYLOR <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>
- Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:14:42 +0100
- To: HTML4All <list@html4all.org>
- CC: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, wai-xtech@w3.org
As far as I am concerned, the (ab)use of HTML in e-mail is a complete red herring. HTML is a language intended for the markup of web pages; any reference to its (ab)use for other purposes should be eliminated from the specification. Philip TAYLOR -------- Steven Faulkner wrote: > The part in the HTML 5 spec (see below). about it being OK to leave > the alt off if you are sending an email to someone who is known to > view images, is unecessary and > just a variation on the "disabled people don't use my web site, so I > don't need to make it accessible" argument. It adds nothing of use to > the spec apart from providing another dubious reason to omit the alt > attribute. > > I propose it is removed.
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