- From: Ian Hickson <py8ieh@bath.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 18:03:03 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- cc: www-html-editor@w3.org, lehors@w3.org, ij@w3.org, www-html@w3.org
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Dave Raggett wrote: >> And also, what do we render in the place of the image? The alt >> text, or nothing? And do we make it a link? A link to what? > This is a design choice. Well yes, That's why I'm asking... ;-) > I would advise giving users the chance to follow the links specified > in the area elements, perhaps by showing a popup menu when mousing > over or clicking on the icon for the broken image. (What icon? When images are broken/disabled, we are following the spec and substituting in the alternative text.) So what you are suggesting is that we should use the alternative text, and make it a link, and on clicking this link, instead of going somewhere we should provide the list of targets? Should we do this when the MAP contains only A elements, but no AREA elements? Or should we do this for all broken image maps? > It would be great if the user preferences for the browser included > the option to automatically insert the text generated from the map > element and its contents, without user intervention. We won't be doing that, since that would involve us doing automatic (i.e., non-explicit/non-XSL) transformations, and the interactions of that and CSS are undefined. Thanks for your help, -- Ian Hickson "So far, people have shown a reasonable amount of sense in evaluating souls (whether they are properly priced)." -- Nick Gibbins; Author of http://totl.net/Soul/, 1999-10-05
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