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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. -- A mosquito cried out in his pain, John Cowan "A chemist has poisoned my brain!" http://www.ccil.org/~cowan The cause of his sorrow http://www.reutershealth.com Was para-dichloro- jcowan@r... Diphenyltrichloroethane. (aka DDT)
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