Re: "alt" attribute required by XHTML 1.0

"Christian Wolfgang Hujer" <Christian.Hujer@itcqis.com> wrote:

> - requirement of the alt attribute for the <img/>-element is not new. For
> HTML 4.01, HTML 4, HTML 3.2, HTML 3.0 and HTML 2.0 I am sure they also
> required the alt attribute for valid documents.

Just for the record, the alt attribute on the img element was NOT
required in HTML 3.2, (never-standardized) HTML 3.0 and HTML 2.0.
Same for HTML i18n (RFC 2070).  It was changed in HTML 4.0.

> For HTML+ and HTML I am not
> sure, neither I am for ISO-HTML, but since ISO-HTML is the most restrictive
> HTML I've ever seen (you may not use H3 after H1, and you may not use H2 if
> you didn't use H1 before...), I believe it also requires the alt-Attribute.

Of course it is required in ISO-HTML.

Note that the alt attribute on the area element was not required in
RFC 1980, but it is required in HTML 3.2 and later.

Regards,
-- 
Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org
W3C - World Wide Web Consortium

Received on Friday, 7 September 2001 07:11:20 UTC