Re: Amaya 8.7-pre possible bug: img tag without alt attribute

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:01:49 +0900 (JST)
Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.org> wrote:

> 
> Irene Vatton <irene.vatton@inrialpes.fr> wrote:
> 
> > > When Amaya loads a document with an img without the alt attribute, it does
> > > not give an error message. The alt attribute can be deleted in the source
> > > view and when the document is saved it does not give an error message, 
> > > neither.
> > 
> > This is now done.
> 
> It seems this fix has gone a bit too far.  Try the following HTML fragment:
> 
>   <object data="w3c_home.png" type="image/png">
>     <object data="w3c_home.gif" type="image/gif">
>       <img src="w3c_home" alt="W3C">
>     </object>
>   </object>
> 
> Amaya 8.7 complains like
> 
>   line n, char n: Default mandatory attribute "alt" added
> 
> against *object* elements, but "alt" is not a valid attribute for object.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org
> W3C - World Wide Web Consortium

You're right there a confusion between images and objects.
I'm fixing this bug, but the fix will arrive too late for the 8.7 release.
     Irene.
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