[whatwg] <img> element comments

[Alexey Feldgendler]

On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:42:34 +0600, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:

>> If <img> without alt is defined to mean that the image is semantically
>> valuable but without an alternative text, then the problem is that we
>> need to distinguish between empty and omitted alt in DOM somehow.

> That's easy enough; the real problem is that we end up saying that
> literally billions of <img> tags are semantically valuable when in all
> likelihood they're just decorative images.
>
> The number of <img> tags with a alt="" attribute is about half the number
> of <img> tags with a src="" attribute.
(1)

There are also many <img> tags with alt="" which are actually semantically  
valuable (2), where alt="" has been inserted automatically by the  
authoring tool or manually by the author just to make the document pass  
formal validation. I can't say whether (1) or (2) is more widespread.


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