- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:28:50 +0100
- To: www-svg@w3.org
Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: > > would it not be necessary or at least helpful, if as expressed and > provided for in html, that a marker should be displayed, indicating that > an image, or some graphical content is missing? I don't believe that HTML mandates the behaviour for broken images and there are at least two de facto behaviours: to display a broken image icon; and to fall back to the alternative text as though the browser couldn't handle images at all for that image. HTML also provides object, which if implemented properly, would give finer control, but, in practice doesn't do images well. SVG is a presentational language, so a failure to display an image is much more catastrophic. A viewer may well want to limp along in that case, but the missing image is likely to have seriously compromised the author's intent, whatever the the viewer does as a workaround. (I'm sssuming HTML used as intended, rather than the create a specific visual design, even though the latter is rather common.) I'm assuming HTML 4.01. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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