Yes it should be optional. When I have menu in the top of page and the alt's are: 'home', 'site one', 'site two'
htdig takes it like text and when I scan sites for 'site one' htdig shows me all sites where is top menu and shows me: home site one site two. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > I am rather surprised at the number of objections I've seen to this > behaviour in htdig, added back in 3.1.4. There must be a lot of sites > that use the alt text attribute in incorrect or nonsensical ways. > > When used correctly, the text in the alt attribute of img tags should > flow nicely with the text around it (that's how text-only browsers will > use it after all), so I would have thought that the addition of this > feature would be welcome. I guess there are a lot of people out there > who still use alt text for nonsense like "red ball" or "this is alt > text". > > Should this feature be optional in future releases? -- Emil W. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
