On 19 Jan, 2006, at 1:53 AM, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
I can think of no reason for <input alt= to exist
<input type="image" alt="Go" src="go.png"/>
Ah, of course, I had forgotten about <input type="image">. It would
have been more obvious to make alt= compulsory where type="image", and
prohibited otherwise.
(<form alt= would make slightly more sense, for non-interactive UAs),
Why would a form element need alternate content?
...
For non-interactive UAs, rather than non-graphical ones.
* <form id="register" alt="To register by post, write to ...">
* <form id="search" alt="">
I'm not saying it's a *good* idea, just that it would have made more
sense than allowing alt= for non-image <input>s. :-)
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Matthew Paul Thomas
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