On Mon, July 9, 2007 13:37, Mike Kaply wrote: > On 7/8/07, Andy Mabbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Manu Sporny >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>>> if we have this: >>> Download: >>> <a href="http://my.site.com/download/3847293";> >>> <img src="/images/cool_download_button.png"/> >>> </a> >>> How do we present this option to a human being in a non-web-page UI? >> The HTML is invalid, lacking the alt attribute which should fix this >> problem. > Actually the alt attribute WON'T fix this problem. Because the > microformat attribute is on the anchor tag, not the image. Microformats > grab the text in the tag. They only grab the image alt text if the > microformat class is on the image itself. Here's a different example: > > <a class="fn url" href="http://www.yahoo.com";><img src="foo.jpg" > alt="Mike Kaply"></a> > > I realize this is a little contrived, but you get the idea. > In this case, the fn is empty. My argument is that the fn should /not/ be empty; the "alt" attribute contains the text equivalent of the image. To discount it as you suggest is to ignore the semantics of the mark-up presented to you. -- Andy Mabbett ** via webmail ** _______________________________________________ microformats-new mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new
