RE: tlug: HTML again

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Jonathan Byrne - 3Web wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Darren Cook wrote:
> 
> >If the image is decorative, it doesn't deserve an ALT tag, IMHO. It's just
> >a waste of bandwidth. The HTML standard doesn't specify it as required.
> 
> I don't often say RTFM, but I will here.  The alt attribute is most definitely
> mandatory.  Correct procedure if you really want nothing in it is to make it
> empty.

mandatory by what standard?  Even arena, W3C's own browser, doesn't have
trouble with images that have no alt= tag.

The only time when I'd give a rat's *** about being fully compliant with
spec is if I was writing pages that other people would have to modify with
a different editor than the one I was using.  Otherwise, whatever works,
works.

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