- From: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 18:28:34 -0400
- To: Paul Fidler <praf1@cam.ac.uk>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Paul Fidler wrote: > In short, what is the point of the alt attribute for <OBJECT>? > Does it serve a useful purpose - or is it just there so that > browser writers can ignore <OBJECT> content (with lots of nice > markup in it) and use alt text (without markup in it) instead? > Or am I just being silly??? > > > [1] http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-object ALT was a late addition to the spec. I will raise this in the W3C HTML working group. Thanks, -- Dave Raggett - <dsr@w3.org> tel +1 617 258 5741 fax +1 617 258 5999 World Wide Web Consortium 545 Technology Square, Cambridge MA 02139
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