Re: Stand-in color before images load

Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>>>> OTOH, img:alt { content: attr(alt) } sounds kinda nice. Though
>>>> that wouldn’t work with XHTML 2.0.
>>>
>>> Why not?
>>
>> There is no img element in XHTML 2.0.
> 
> Heh, ok...
> 
> I thought it was intended as a more general pseudo-class as it was 
> proposed in the light of background image and such... Actually, the 
> original proposal applied the pseudo-class to the P element.

What I meant was that in XHTML 2.0 alternate text is no longer provided 
as an attribute. Instead it is done like this[1]:

<h1 src="heading1.jpg"><em>Surely</em> this would be cool to have</h1>

Since as far as I know there is no such thing as er... content: 
content() or something.


~Grauw

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/introduction.html#s_intro_differences
     http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-embedding.html#adef_embedding_src

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Received on Tuesday, 29 March 2005 19:28:59 UTC