On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Nikita Popov wrote: > I think the idea of replacing the alt-attribute by the content of img is > very good. An image used as an <img> needs to be content-related an > therefore you often could place a descriptive text into it. This would lead > us to img being only a normal HTML-element with normal content, but the > ability of specifying an image by "src". > > On the problem of implementation: > <img src="borken_url.jpg" style="white-space:pre; > font-family:monospace"><span style="white-space:pre; > font-family:monospace">Test > Hallo > World</span></img> > If the browser knows the syntax, it'll render correct, if not it'll render > correct only in case broken_url.jpg is really broken. Otherwise the text > would be underneath it. So you would need to position the span over the img. > > I don't know whether it's worth the effort, but it would be a better syntax > than alt, in my eyes.
There's already <object> for these cases where you want a "rich" fallback: <object data="borken_url.jpg"><pre> Test Hallo World </pre></object> -- Thomas Broyer /tɔ.ma.bʁwa.je/
