Re: Loading different pages in an iframe

"dorayme" <doraymeRidThis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <744novF108qjcU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Bergamot <bergamot@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ari Heino wrote:

Alt texts are there to describe
the contents of the images

That is incorrect. Alt text is a textual *replacement* for the image,
which is not the same as a description. For photographic content it
might well end up a description, but that doesn't make it so for all
images.


You concede too much. The description that you might "well end up with"
as 'replacement text' for a normal realistic photograph (to take an
example) should be a description of the scene depicted and not a
description of the photograph itself, a distinct difference.

If you stick to your guns, Bergamot, you can keep your position pure.
Let's us take an abstract painting now, as an opposite sort of case
where there is nothing the image realistically depicts. Even here, I
would say, one could argue that what is needed is a replacement text.
Perhaps a some poetic remark that replaces the abstract painting. Or
simply some description of an abstraction. Again, a distinct difference.

You wouldn't use "spacer" as alt text for one of those archaic spacer
gifs, would you? That would be a description, but incorrect alt text.

--
dorayme


archaic spacer gifs?

I thought I make a new design, based upon a complex table construction. I
gave all the cells the correct width and height properties but still it was
not correct. Until I put in spacer gifs. From that moment the layout was OK.
If they are archaic (could well be, in that case I may be archaic as well
:-), how else should I have achieved a correct layout?

Fokke


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