- From: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:51:28 -0700
- To: Erik Dahlstrom <ed@opera.com>
- Cc: "www-svg@w3.org" <www-svg@w3.org>
On Oct 28, 2011, at 10:03 AM, "Erik Dahlstrom" <ed@opera.com> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:55:04 -0700, Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com> wrote: > >> I'm not sure which group to bring this issue to: >> >> Proposal: >> <img src="myimage.svg" /> >> would pick up the title in the SVG file and use it as though title were set on the image tag. >> >> It works for <iframe src="myimage.svg"> and for inline SVG. But with <img src>, no luck. >> >> Also, >> <img src="myimage.svg" longdesc="myimage.svg" /> seems a little redundant. >> >> SVG has <title> and <description>, but the <img> tag wasn't designed with those in mind. >> None of the targets <img> previously supported contained reasonably useful title/description content. >> >> Ideas anyone? >> >> Google's SVG viewer also seems to suffer, it does not show the <title> of the image. >> >> All viewers understand that <img> means static SVG content, no scripts, limited references, and so forth. But it seems that most of them neglect to process title. Am I doing something wrong there? > > They don't neglect it, it's just that all interactivity inside the svg file is disabled, it's as if the svg was a raster image. > > What you're proposing seems similar to asking for EXIF data to be used as title. > Yes, it's similar. It's just that SVG is explicitly intended for the semantic whereas EXIF is a more general mechanism. I am not asking that this be applied to other formats-- just that it be explored for SVG.
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