- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 16:00:59 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I was glancing over the recently updated Cougar DTD at <http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Cougar/Cougar.dtd> where I noticed that the ALT attribute for IMG is now a required attribute (a good thing, IMO). I also noticed that the DTD's comment for ALT is "short description", whereas the HTML 4.0 DTD at <http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40/sgml/dtd.html> gives "description for text only browsers". Both of these comments imply that the ALT attribute is used to give a *description* of the image, but commonly suggested practice (as well as the HTML 4.0 draft [1]) says that the ALT attribute should be used to give *alternate text*, which usually means giving the *function* of the image instead of the *description*. With this in mind, I would suggest changing the DTD's comment to "alternate text when image is not rendered". BTW, what is the intention of <http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Cougar/Cougar.dtd>? Is this to be a working version of the HTML 4.0 DTD, unlike <http://www.w3.org/TR/WD- html40/sgml/dtd.html> which is only updated when new drafts become public? [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40/struct/includes.html#alternate-text -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBNBWq+g/JhtXygIx1AQHKdAMAuwJlOIcxRH09CnXKMPj3N3Dhz6S8UzIt 08rmXobpSFzVrol3Mee88lYqFawtSujtk7UOBNKcpJHic8M6icu+eJcZw4+VsWad I7rSGGJxafmFC7HODmQD5c1HEWYuE3Pq =k+5C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Liam Quinn =============== http://www.htmlhelp.com/%7Eliam/ =============== Web Design Group Enhanced Designs, Web Site Development http://www.htmlhelp.com/ http://enhanced-designs.com/ ====== PGP Key at http://www.htmlhelp.com/%7Eliam/pgp.html =====
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