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Tim Bray wrote: > Having said that, I think that certain HTML idioms, such as > > <img src="URL of picture" alt="local text" longdesc="URL of text"> > > are really bad markup design and aren't worth grandfathering. Why > bad? Suppose you want to have descriptions (long or short) in more > than one language, and suppose you want to provide multiple sizes of > the picture, etc; The URI people keep telling me that's a job for content-negotiation, providing multiple representations of a single resource. I guess there's a good question about whether the longdesc resource is just a representation of the same resource identified by the src attribute... How deep do you really want to go with this? Alt text in multiple languages might be handy, I agree. > in fact, while you can argue about the appropriate > uses of elements and attributes almost forever, this is a good > example of how not to use attributes. I dunno about that, unless maybe we want to get into requiring all URI-containing values to be child elements rather than elements. I don't see any reason that src and longdesc don't both qualify as metadata about the img element, though I'm sure I could come up with something vaguely plausible. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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