Re: debian gnu/linux
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 03:07:07PM -0700, Darren Benham wrote:
> Putting ALT tags, empty alt tags, no alt tags, filled alt tags won't
> cause pages not to load...
There are no alt tags.
No, the point is not whether the pages load or don't load today.
The HTML user agents try to display broken HTML in the spirit of "be
liberal in what you accept". We should in that same spirit "be strict
in what [we] send".
> > The alt attribute is mandatory on the img tag. It is perfectly OK to
> > specify an empty alt attribute.
> OK in whose book? It is NOT ok in my book, period.
This is according to the HTML 4.0 specification, which the Debian WWW
pages claim to follow. The specification actually explicitly mentions
one case where the alt attribute should be empty.
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