Attribute references

[Michel Fortin]

Le 9 janv. 2005, à 17:09, Lou Quillio a écrit :

>     !(path/to/image){[alt text] 176/80 .right}
>
>     <img src="path/to/image" alt="alt text" width="176" height="80"
> class="right" />

Hum, your idea for a new width and height shortcut is a good one, 
except I would write `176x80` instead of `176/80`. And I would put it 
inside the parenthesis since it is specific to images and mostly tied 
to the URL. What do you think of this?

	![text](img/river.gif 176x80)

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I strongly believe that alternative text is at the right place in front 
of the image path, because:

1.	It is not optional, but required by the HTML specification.
	By concept, everything inside curly brackets is optional.

2.	Alternative text should contains a textual representation of your
	image. But you can invert things and see the image as a alternative
	and nicer representation of the text in the alt attribute. Both
	should be interchangeable.

	Putting the alt attribute first puts emphasis on readability: you
	write some text in the document, with a link-like indication of where
	to find the image replacement for that text.


Michel Fortin
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