Image syntax

[A. Pagaltzis]

* A. Pagaltzis <pagaltzis at gmx.de> [2005-07-27 23:15]:

> That is exactly what is `title`, not `alt`, is for. See the

> gist of Matthew Thomas’ argument over at Wikipedia over their

> `alt` guidelines.

> 

> Note `alt` is not excluded from use by user agents when they

> cannot provide the image, after all; those should provide the

> information from both attributes. OTOH they don’t render `alt`

> at all when the image can be shown, though the `title` content

> remains available – commonly as a tooltip, but that is just one

> possible interpretation.


Ugh. I used to be a lot more coherent than this. Sorry my
arguments are so hard to read; it’s embarrassing.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>