I see where you're coming from, but the logical extension of your argument is that there are never any instances where it is necessary to use images to convey information. That is certainly often the case, but can we say 'never'?
You are not always able to make sites as semantically pure as you might wish (unless you are prepared to walk away from a lot of work). For instance I am currently working with a group of large retail brands where the brand managers will absolutely not permit the degradation of the visual appearance by replacing the graphical representations of text with real text. We're not starting with a clean sheet, so a jump to a pure semantic website just isn't going to happen in one step (at least not in the timescale they are looking for). Steve -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Montoya Sent: 20 November 2008 21:33 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WSG] Text-only version > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Steve Green > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> You can do a lot of what Betsie does using CSS but the one thing you >> can't do is replace the images with their 'alt' attributes. > > Does this solve some problem? > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Steve Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes it does. It allows the creation of a text-only version for people > who need one but don't have a suitable user agent on the machine that > they currently have access to. I'm still not seeing the problem for the solution. If you can't see images, does the alt text really help? I don't mean to sound annoying, I'm just trying to see the point of using Betsie on a semantic website. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
