- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 10:58:12 +0300
- To: John Foliot <foliot@wats.ca>
- Cc: "'Christophe Strobbe'" <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>, <wai-xtech@w3.org>, "'Dan Connolly'" <connolly@w3.org>
On May 15, 2008, at 03:23, John Foliot wrote: >> (Aside: alt is also bolted on in the sense that it wasn't part of the >> original design of the <img> element.) > > Uhm... I (and history) disagree: > Since HTML 2, the @alt attribute has been part of the specification, > although in 2 and 3.2 it was not mandatory. See: > http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/L2Pindex.html#IMG (HTML 2) > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32#img (HTML 3.2) > > ...and Dan Connolly was the author of record for the W3C html 1 > spec... Dan, > correct me if I'm wrong but <img> was not part of that spec was it? The original design was what the Mosaic guys had first, and it came before any spec. The first spec draft that I'm aware of is this: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/draft-ietf-iiir-html-01.txt -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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