In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Toby A Inkster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>> Whatever you think of the necessity of alternative text for content >> images, such supplementary uses of ALT and LONGDESC need (it seems to >> me) to have some sort of place in the proposed draft. > >I think these attributes are very important, and that's why we should >avoid overloading them, and allow authors to use them for the very >important purpose for which they were designed. Looking at the example added here: <http://microformats.org/wiki?title=figure&curid=5114&diff=25848&oldid=25847&rcid=39724> (aka <http://tinyurl.com/2pt7eq>) it seems foolhardy to discard the alt text. If it is not used as the legend, why not simply mandate a non-null value (i.e. not alt="" or alt=" ") becomes part of the microformat as a property in its own right, so that the example is parsed as: Image: salesdata.png Legend: January sales data Alt: Widget sales have fallen slightly, but widget repair kits have sold well. and similarly with a URL value for "longdesc"? -- Andy Mabbett _______________________________________________ microformats-new mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new
