Re: Validation questions

On Wed, 24 Mar 1999 06:33:37 -0500, Bergeron/Larin
<berlar(at)generation.net> , late of Pablo Fanques Fair 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.

Hmmm...I did not know that. I think this may be a reason to send a
message to Macromedia, then.


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