2007-12-11 05:56 Ian Hickson:
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Christoph Paeper wrote:
Would the following be inadequate usage according to this
specification?
<a href="foo.img"><samp><img src="foo.t.img" alt="..."/></samp></a>
Yes. The former would be appropriate if a computer output the given
image
and that was the subject under discussion;
That means screenshots, doesn't it?
But computers "output" many more kinds of images, e.g. when they
render, scan, read out cameras or other media, reel through films ...
I think it's hard to tell the essential difference.
Of course almost nobody actually uses |samp| in galleries and the
like at the moment, so it's not a big deal.
I'm not convinced that there's really a need to unambiguously mark
up thumbnails as distinct from anything else, though.
Neither am I, but there are programs or browser plugins that could
make good use out of this information. OTOH it might fit better into
the |rel| (or |rev|) attribute of the surrounding |a| (or it's done
by a predefined class for |img|).
Another question would be whether the linked image had to be the
original (e.g. the full-size screenshot) or just a better
representation of it (e.g. the larger scan of a book cover).
PS: Thanks for the personal CC, I've not been watching the list for a
while.
