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Re: [Fwd: The problems with Xlink for integration langu

• To: elharo@m... (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
• Subject: Re: [Fwd: The problems with Xlink for integration langu
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 11:43:41 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: jeni@j... (Jeni Tennison), xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <p0433010ab9acf4f2310c@[192.168.254.4]> from "Elliotte Rusty Harold" at Sep 17, 2002 11:16:08 AM

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> To some extent this is tying back to the perennial attributes vs. 
> child elements thread. Here I'm beginning to notice that maybe 
> attributes never were right for a lot of the things they were used 
> for in HTML. (Another example: why is ALT an attribute instead of a 
> child? Linking aside, an ALT child would be very useful.)

Why, because if it were a child, its content would be displayed by old
browsers that didn't understand it.

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