Hello Benjamin,
On 5/28/07, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
> On 5/28/07, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
>>
>> > On 5/27/07, Maciej Stachowiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> >> I don't think this is a very natural use of the <q> element. A
>> >> thumbnail isn't really like a quote of a prose fragment. Consider
>> >> that you would never put a thumbnail in quotation marks.
>> >
>> > True... but you don't have to have the <q> elements put quotes around
>> > the thumbnail.
[snip]
>> Hmm. I think Maciej does have a strong point about interoperability
>> here. Removing the quotation punctuation with CSS does not help those
>> with user-designated styles or UAs that ignore such CSS: e.g. text
>> browsers and screen readers. The question to ask yourself is: if you
>> could not remove the quotation punctuation and layout, would you still
>> use <q> and <blockquote>? If a screen reader read (for example):
>
> A text browser can NOT see the graphical thumbnail anyways. It will
> see the "alt" text of the thumbnail. And putting the "alt" text in
> quotes seems OK with me.
>
> (It's only the putting the graphical thumbnail in quotes that seems wrong.)
Ah. Okay, I hadn't understood that's what you were saying. I think
putting the thumbnail alternative text in quotation punctuation is
potentially problematic unless the alternative text is actually a
quotation from the video's dialogue.
What if there is no video dialogue?
What if it is a motorcycle race?
What should I put in there then?... an onomatopoeia of the motorcycles?
Something like...
alt="errrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..., errrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..., rrrmmmmmm..."
:-)
Doesn't really seem useful.
The "Thumbnail of..." suggestion seems better in that case.
See ya
--
Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.
charles @ reptile.ca
supercanadian @ gmail.com
developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/
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