[whatwg] alt="" and the <meta name=generator> exception

Maciej Stachowiak mjs at apple.com
Wed Aug 8 01:10:55 PDT 2012


On Aug 7, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Michael[tm] Smith <mike at w3.org> wrote:

> 
> Anyway, do you have a concrete suggestion for an alternate name? I'm not
> wedded to "generator-unable-to-provide-required-alt" and I doubt Hixie is
> either. It's just a proposal that came up after 15 minutes of brainstorming
> on IRC. That said, Hixie's already articulated the reasons behind the
> choice of that name. Lacking any other proposed alternative, it's hard to
> have any kind of productive discussion about the name.


"Lacking any other proposed alternative"? Not only do we have Ted's original suggestion of "relaxed", but also this whole subthread of name suggestions:

<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2012Aug/0038.html>

 - Maciej



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