- From: VulcanBoy <vulcanboy@rocketmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 11:39:45 -0700 (PDT)
- To: jptxs <jptxs@idt.net>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
---jptxs <jptxs@idt.net> wrote: > > At 01:16 PM 9/19/97 -0700, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: > >If it weren't for text-only browsers, I would want height and width to > >become *required* attributes... > > ::shyly admitting ignorance he asked:: > why would the height and width being reqired mess with the text only > browsers? would they allocate the space for an image they cannot show? if > so, this seems rather silly. there must be some way to make them only be > able to see the ALT attribute and therefore not have a problem with the > height and width. > Odd, I thought exactly the opposite was meant. The way I read that, if you run across a page that doesn't have height and width tags (thereby slowing the display in graphics browers), you can always look at the following text with a text browser, which ignores the image anyway. _____________________________________________________________________ Sent by RocketMail. Get your free e-mail at http://www.rocketmail.com
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