- From: Spartanicus <spartanicus.3@ntlworld.ie>
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:14:52 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl> wrote: >An attribute instead of a label element is a bad idea. > >Attributes can contain no markup, such as Ruby, abbreviations, >directionality indications, etc. They also cannot be styled conveniently. > >That is a major design improvement of XHTML2, and also the reason why >e.g. the alternate text of images has moved out of the alt attribute >into the element’s content. For this I would not credit XHTML2 as a "major design improvement" since this only applies to the legacy <img> element, not to embedded/included images in general. The textual alternative to an image and other embedded/included external resources can be coded as content and thus marked up since HTML4. -- Spartanicus
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