- From: Daniel W. Connolly <connolly@beach.w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 11:59:34 -0400
- To: Philippe Jausions <Philippe.Jausions@chasseneuil.em.slb.com>
- Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org
In message <9506200637.AA22548@www10.w3.org>, Philippe Jausions writes: >Hi everybody ! > >I have a suggestion for ALT attribut (IMG tag). Why don't we use it with full >HTML syntax and not just with simple text. I mean, what do you think of such u >se : > ><IMG SRC="pictures" ALT="<PRE> ._.<BR> / \<BR> / \<BR>/-------\<BR> | > |_|<BR> | __ |<BR> | <A HREF=door.html>||</A> |</PRE>"> My House ! SGML, on which HTML is based, says that the stuff inside attribute value literals (i.e. inside the ""'s in ALT="...") doesn't get parsed for tags. Now we could go ahead and parse it anyway, but that would be a strange use of the technology. The functionality that you're asking for has been in the HTML+ proposal for some years now: it's called the FIG element. Your example would look like: <FIG SRC="pictures"> <PRE> ._. / \ / \ /-------\ | |_| | __ | | <A HREF=door.html>||</A> | </PRE> </FIG> My House ! The most recent specification proposal is: Figures http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/html3/figures.html Fri Mar 24 09:56:57 1995 Dan p.s. Please: everybody read the WWW FAQ[1] and the www-talk/www-html archives[2] and the recent HTML specs before posting. [1] http://sunsite.unc.edu/boutell/faq/www_faq.html [2] http://gummo.stanford.edu/html/hypermail/
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