- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 22:56:23 +0200
- To: "Michael[tm] Smith" <mike@w3.org>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
From the editors’ response, it is evident that it was always intended that longdesc is a valid non-empty URL: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21436#c2 Leif H Silli Leif Halvard Silli, Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:16:58 +0100: > Michael[tm] Smith, Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:16:38 +0900: > >> I also updated it to now recognize the longdesc attribute as >> valid (including a check to ensure its value is a valid URL). > > That the URL is valid, is one thing. But don't you, as validator > developers, agree that the URL should as well be *non-empty*? For the > img element’s @src attribute, the validator already checks that the URL > is a *non-empty* URL. This has now been captured as bug 21436: > "@longdesc should, like @src, be a valid *non-empty* URL".[1] > > [1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21436 > -- > leif halvard silli
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