RE: tlug: HTML again

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Matt Gushee wrote:

> Darren Cook writes:
> 
>  > >    jdh> elements (the ones in active navigation buttons, for
>  > >    jdh> example). The purpose of those empty alt tags, I presume, is
>  > >    jdh> to alert text-based browsers like Lynx that there is an image
>  > >Um, no, it's to put something in place so that the user of the text
>  > >browser knows _what_ is there.
> 
>  > If the image is decorative, it doesn't deserve an ALT tag, IMHO. It's just
> 
> The image doesn't deserve anything. But the user does. If the author
> is very consistent in always using ALTs for meaningful graphics, then
> not having them for decorations may be okay. But it still would be
> helpful to have, say, a generic label like "icon". That's all of 10
> extra bytes.
> 
>  > a waste of bandwidth. The HTML standard doesn't specify it as required.
> 
> HTML 4.0 does. Better get used to it.

why?  Nothing enforces it.

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