- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 10:02:33 -0400
- To: Jukka Korpela <jkorpela@cc.hut.fi>, www-html@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 09:02 AM 10/09/97 +0300, Jukka Korpela wrote: >On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Liam Quinn wrote: > >> 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). > >A good thing indeed, although it is somewhat odd to improve elements >which should actually be deprecated (as IMG should be, in favor of >OBJECT). IMG should definitely be deprecated at some point, but I don't think it's practical right now with the popular browsers' bug-ridden "support" for OBJECT. (It'd almost be nice to rename OBJECT to rid ourselves of the bugs in current implementations.) >However, the ALT controversy is not just a matter of wording. There is >a fundamental problem. There are two masters to serve, two needs: the >need for replacement (when image is not shown at all, for some reason) >and the need for description. The latter is nowadays more common, as >many people use graphic browsers with image autoloading off. But both >needs must be taken into account. I'm not sure exactly how this should >be done for the IMG element I think that TITLE for a short description and LONGDESC for a long description are sufficient. >but I think the essential point is to >prevent the controversy from ever arising for the OBJECT element. Again, TITLE seems appropriate for a short description and LONGDESC for a long description. What seems odd in the DTD at <http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Cougar/Cougar.dtd> is that the LONGDESC attribute was added to IMG but not to OBJECT. Is this just an oversight? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBNBaodw/JhtXygIx1AQE0ugMAwzwmSFvq3YCFCcJ7rEwIBWj3XEcncYAJ +Ehlovvh7MSzryMNPZj55NBeTj0UcrJ1iZujNUVUF/QpBVb9UWluc4HWhbCSZ5eb 718Bnj+RvF9haxR9I5c5Bj+VvE3WCi3n =cwnb -----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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