On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkesle...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Doesn't the spec imply it should?
That depends on whom you ask. I would think that it does, but since it doesn’t explicitly say to parse alternative text for replaced elements, implementors could simply interpret it as “display any child text nodes without further processing”, which seems to be the case in existing implementations.