Re: alt text
- From: Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:12:42 -0400
Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
Scripsit Harlan Messinger:
"User agents must render alternate text when they cannot support
images, they cannot support a certain image type or when they are
configured not to display images."
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/objects.html#h-13.2
None of these is the case. That's not to say that the browsers
couldn't handle the case of a missing file in the same way, but the
spec doesn't call for it.
It does. You missed a simple statement in the section you quoted, right before the part you quoted:
"The alt attribute specifies alternate text that is rendered when the
image cannot be displayed".
I took the subsequent details to qualify the general statement, i.e. "when the image cannot be displayed owing to client-side factors." Since they took the trouble to enumerate three client-side factors, it seems reasonable to take the failure to mention the obvious server-side factor to be meaningful.
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