[html5] r1005 - /

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Author: ianh
Date: 2007-08-14 17:43:16 -0700 (Tue, 14 Aug 2007)
New Revision: 1005

Modified:
   index
   source
Log:
[act] (1) Ban transparent spacer GIFs.

Modified: index
===================================================================
--- index	2007-08-15 00:15:30 UTC (rev 1004)
+++ index	2007-08-15 00:43:16 UTC (rev 1005)
@@ -12288,6 +12288,11 @@
      abilities might not include easily seeing images.</p>
   </dl>
 
+  <p>The <code><a href="#img">img</a></code> must not be used as a layout
+   tool. In particular, <code><a href="#img">img</a></code> elements should
+   not be used to display fully transparent images, as they rarely convey
+   meaning and rarely add anything useful to the document.
+
   <p class=big-issue>There has been some suggestion that the <code
    title="">longdesc</code> attribute from HTML4, or some other mechanism
    that is more powerful than <code title="">alt=""</code>, should be

Modified: source
===================================================================
--- source	2007-08-15 00:15:30 UTC (rev 1004)
+++ source	2007-08-15 00:43:16 UTC (rev 1005)
@@ -10312,6 +10312,10 @@
 
   </dl>
 
+  <p>The <code>img</code> must not be used as a layout tool. In
+  particular, <code>img</code> elements should not be used to display
+  fully transparent images, as they rarely convey meaning and rarely
+  add anything useful to the document.</p>
 
   <p class="big-issue">There has been some suggestion that the <code
   title="">longdesc</code> attribute from HTML4, or some other