Hi Anne, OK let me apologise for what was seen by you both as an attack, It was not meant as an attack. My questions were not rhetorical, but were designed to provoke a response (not the desired one in retrospect)
>The alt= attribute is a known open issue. It would be good if it has that status, that it be recorded as such in the spec. To date I have seen nothing from the editors of the spec to indicate this (either in the spec, on the html wg list or on IRC). I do think that making such contraversial changes to the spec without debate and research does create an atmosphere in which adversarial exchanges flourish. On 11/09/2007, Anne van Kesteren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:14:50 +0200, Steve Faulkner > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know who decided to make alt optional, what i do assume is that > > people such as yourself and anne who interact with Ian hickson on a > > regular basis and are involved in the whatwg so would have a better > > understanding of why decisions were made about the changes in the spec. > > It's not clear to me why you needed to reiterate a point already made on > the mailing list by making an out-of-context quote from IRC. The alt= > attribute is a known open issue. > > (I saw it as an attack on us as well, fwiw, more so because the issue is > already being debated on the list and the quote was entirely out of > context. I also think it's an unfair assumption that people will follow > the link and try to understand the context.) > > > -- > Anne van Kesteren > <http://annevankesteren.nl/> > <http://www.opera.com/> > -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG Europe Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium www.paciellogroup.com | www.wat-c.org Web Accessibility Toolbar - http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
