- From: Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:44:12 -0700
- To: "Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd)" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Cc: David Poehlman <david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com>, Al Gilman <alfred.s.gilman@ieee.org>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>, Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
When answering a hypothetical question, changing the hypothesis rarely achieves the same results as actually answering the question... At 21:58 +0100 22/08/08, Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) wrote: >Dave Singer wrote: >> >>[Microsoft] word has no field for alt text of images. > >Not true : much as I hate Word, I fired it >up, inserted an image, and a few right-clicks >later found how to insert ALT text. This may be true in some versions of word (not the one I checked) but it's not relevant. At 0:15 +0300 23/08/08, Robert J Burns wrote: >Even if Word didn't have a way to set the alt text on an image, >that's not really the concern of this WG. We're not the WordML WG. >We're the HTML WG. There are always going to be lesser formats that >authors will want to convert to HTML and authors will need to >supplement the data available from the source format with new values >that cannot be automatically generated. The only person who survives on a desert island where there are cases of canned food but no an opener is the economist; he assumes the can opener. Here, you assume the existence of a magic secondary file, and avoid answering the question. -- David Singer Apple/QuickTime
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