HTML/img

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img element open spec issues

alt guidance needs simplification

Issue recorded on the WHATWG wiki: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Img_Alt

Regarding 4.8.1.1.14 Guidance for conformance checkers

• http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/embedded-content-1.html#guidance-for-conformance-checkers
• http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/embedded-content-1.html#guidance-for-conformance-checkers

The complexity of the authoring guidance for the new alt attribute in HTML is bad for authors, and for author understanding.

We should remove the last two points in this section:

• "... document is an e-mail ..." - not a useful case
• meta generator - causes as many problems as it solves

As well as the authoring guidance in the section(s) below:

• Remove: 4.8.1.1.11 An image in an e-mail or private document intended for a specific person who is known to be able to view images.
  • http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/embedded-content-1.html#an-image-in-an-e-mail-or-private-document-intended-for-a-specific-person-who-is-known-to-be-able-to-view-images

See related http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/80

2010-08-01 posted: http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2010-August/027479.html

img element resolved spec issues

reject longdesc

• reject longdesc attribute
  • 2010-06-26 answered W3C HTML WG survey on related issue 30
  • tweeted: http://tantek.com/2010/177/t4/objecting-longdesc-attr-html5 , http://twitter.com/t/status/17127775107

Resolved: ding dong longdesc is dead.

• http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Aug/0112.html
• http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Aug/att-0112/issue-30-decision.html

see also

• HTML home page