- From: Frank Tobin <ftobin@neverending.org>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 20:50:36 -0500 (EST)
- To: Zoltan Hawryluk <zhawryluk@corp.attcanada.ca>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
Zoltan Hawryluk, at 10:05 -0500 on 2001-12-07, wrote: > All this talk about images in web pages reminds me of how the <img> tag > has always been restrictive ... in terms of that if the user agent is a > non graphical device, all that would be shown would be the contents of > the "alt" attribute. This is OK most of the time, but it would be great > to show, say, formatted ASCII Art or any other alternate HTML for the > image. This has come up before. What you want to use is the <object> element, which allows recursive description of 'fallbacks' to use (e.g., Flash->img->text). -- Frank Tobin http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/
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