- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:34:25 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Cc: W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Steven Faulkner wrote: > > The HTML5 spec currently states [1]: > > "In many cases, the image is actually just supplementary, and its > presence merely reinforces the surrounding text. In these cases, the > alt attribute must be present but its value must be the empty string." > > and provides and example: > > A flowchart that repeats the previous paragraph in graphical form: > > <p>The network passes data to the Tokeniser stage, which > passes data to the Tree Construction stage. From there, data goes > to both the DOM and to Script Execution. Script Execution is > linked to the DOM, and, using document.write(), passes data to > the Tokeniser.</p> > <p><img src="images/parsing-model-overview.png" alt=""></p>" > > > So would the example below be non-conforming? > > > <p>The network passes data to the Tokeniser stage, which > passes data to the Tree Construction stage. From there, data goes > to both the DOM and to Script Execution. Script Execution is > linked to the DOM, and, using document.write(), passes data to > the Tokeniser.</p> > <p><img src="images/parsing-model-overview.png" alt="Flowchart > representation of the preceding paragraph."></p> I have attempted to make the spec clear about this. Please let me know if it is still ambiguous. Thanks! -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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