Sebastian Spaeth (news) wrote: > often images are just used for page layout and design.
In pages composed with our Composer? I think that most of the pages composed with Mozilla's Composer are rather simple files without these bullets and "spacers" and other cruft. This "eye-candy" would be far to work-intensive, with or without alt text. Composer is used more like an MS Word for the web (in contrast to an Quark XPress for the web, which might be the type of app that inserts these images). But the by far most common use for Composer is Mailnews. There, hardly anybody cares about "page layout and design". There, however, plaintext is very important. > In this case it really doesn't make sense to show lynx users "This is > just a green block width rounded corners for layout reasons". I'd be > happier with a space as default. No! Please read the HTML4 spec. For bullets, use alt="", not alt=" ". You might not see the difference in lynx (because lynx is IMO broken in that regard), but other apps might show "[ ]" (Mozilla currently does). > This way you can't hurt standard complience, You did. > The only danger is that people might forget to enter text when they > really should. But in this case it is their fault and not ours. I disagree. It would be our fault, because we failed to tell the user. Most users don't even know that they should provide alt text and why (how could they know). That's why we need to show the dialog, if no meaningful text has been inserted and the user didn't explicitly chose "no alt text". Ben
