On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Jim Jewett <[email protected]> wrote: > The 99% misused is at best debatable. I'm pretty sure that using a > longer human-readable description instead of an URL was once > (admittedly long ago) recommended.
In HTML 3.2, longdesc didn't exist: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32#img In HTML 4, it's required to be a URI: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/objects.html#adef-longdesc-IMG Your other points seem reasonable, though. I'll also note, for the record, that since r25335 in August 2007, MediaWiki doesn't generate bogus longdescs all over the place, so that might improve the statistics if they were run again today.
