On 15 Mar 2005, at 18:10, Sigurd Magnusson wrote:
I keep seeing asterisks in the W3C spec but cannot see a glossary
anywhere. As an example, with the img element in xhtml 1.1, the
attributes 'src' and 'alt' are both marked with an asterisk. Why?
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/
Wow. Some serious bedtime reading. Cheers.
Siggy
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Here are some:
Joe Clark's serialised book
reading. Cheers.Siggy- Original Message - From: "russ - maxdesign" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: "Web Standards Group" <WSG@WEBSTANDARDSGROUP.ORG>Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 8:35 PMSubject: Re: [WSG] Asterisks in W3C spec Here are some: Joe Clark's serialised boo
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Asterisks in W3C spec
I tried Laura's link and it was not found.
Do you have an updated link for her site?
Then there is always Laura's mega resource:http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/support/Training/Online/webdesign/accessibility.html#alt
Gl
In answer to your question, Sigurd - the asterisk indicates that that
attribute is required for that elements (as opposed to optional).
For example, if you use the img you MUST include a SRC and an ALT
attribute for it to be valid.
Cheers :o)
Richard
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From: Sigurd
Here are some:
Joe Clark's serialised book (covers all three - title, alt and longdesc)
http://joeclark.org/book/sashay/serialization/Chapter06.html
Writing good ALT text (covers all three - title, alt and longdesc)
http://www.gawds.org/show.php?contentid=28
The alt and title attributes (covers
