Re: Validation questions

At 06:33 AM 3/24/99 -0500, Bergeron/Larin wrote:

>Alt attributes in IMG tag are quite useful on the contrary.  For 
>"meaningless" images like spacer gifs and line graphics you should insert 
>empty alt attributes.  It takes the image out of the page flow in text only 
>browsers.  If you don't put an empty alt attribute Lynx for example inserts 
>a bunch of [INLINE] in the text to show there was an image there and this 
>is as annoying as seeing [spacer gif] or [line] in there.  The empty alt 
>attribute eliminates that.

But the point that seems to be being missed is that it is trivial to add in
a dtd at the top of your html and trivial to add in some alt tags (in fact
both the programs in question provide a wysiwyg interface for adding in alt
info.)

So, why decide that because these programs dont do these things for you,
that they are bad programs that are worthless?

Also, not everyone writes for Lynx users. It really depends on the nature
of the site. Our product requires NS or IE 3.1 or better. So if a Lynx user
comes to our web site, we don't care if the site looks nice for them.

Kayla Block
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