- From: <noog@libero.it>
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 00:21:22 +0100
- To: <www-amaya@w3.org>
> Whilst I think that it is incorrect that one needs to > include a bogus space when the image really is purely > cosmetic, accepting the empty contents of the alternative > text box is what a typical commercial tool might > do, not what a standards enforcing tool should do. What about auto-generate an alt text? such as the image's name without the .gif extension? or the image's software text chunk? (this could be really an idea) Don't act know-it-all, mr. Woolley, we don't need to piss off people with stupid, enabled-by-default dialogs. Don't pretend to indoctrinate them. Show the warning during validation, NOT during editing. Or show it in the status bar, just like Homesite does (I believe you have a lot to learn from Allaire - not the memory management for sure :), so the user can continue his/her work without interruption Anyway that message is plain stupid. I used to use gif images to create round corners for tables and other merely cosmetic artifacts, and to enforce table layout as well (we really need a true layout grid), why the heck should a 3x3 pixel round corner have an alt text? is it supposed to? Be practical: people don't use <table>'s to show tabular data, people don't use gif images to express deep concepts or add content to a page > I'd even suggest that, with a check box, it should still > generate a warning, explaining why alt text was needed, and > defaulted to not accepting the change. Amaya promises to be the next winner of the Interfaces Hall of Shame award...
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