On 20 Jan, 2006, at 1:18 AM, Alexey Feldgendler wrote:
...
The alt attrubute should be made optional, and when it's omitted, the
UA should try to obtain some useful information from the file name or
by other means.
...
Gecko used to do that
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5764>, but no longer does
because it didn't work for the many cases of <img src="spacer.gif"> and
the like. (I can't find where the latter decision was made, but IIRC
Ian Hickson was the one who made it.)
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