Re: ALT specification

[Jonathan L. Neuenschwander]

|  I'll second the plea for more than just text inside ALT.  One thing I've
|  discovered users seem to expect is that an imagemap be replaced with a
|  a menu when images are turned off.

No flaming intended, but I really cannot see why you'd want to ruin HTML
this way.  Parsing the ALT attribute makes about as much sense as parsing
the SRC attribute; imagine passing a <IMG SRC="<A HREF...>">.

As others have already pointed out, the FIG element does a much better job
of solving this problem (and also makes imagemaps obsolete, which IMHO are
a lose anyway).

I urge you to check out the HTML 3.0 specification at
<URL:http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/html3/CoverPage.html>.  It's
great reading if you're interested in HTML.
-- 
Karl Anders Oygard

Received on Thursday, 22 June 1995 09:30:20 UTC