Scott Reynen wrote: > [...] > And my first inclination would be to give imageless humans something > more readable by putting the machine data in the title attribute > instead, e.g.: > > <img class="bday" src="today.png" alt="December 15, 2005" > title="20051215T080000Z" /> > > This is sending three different types of data to three different types > of readers. src is for imaged humans, alt is for imageless humans, and > title is for machines. I understand the drawback of further > complication, but the alternative seems to require authors to choose > between usability and microformats.
IMO it would be better to write: <abbr class="bday" title="20051215T080000Z"> <img src="file..." alt="December 15, 2005" /> </abbr> This way you could have - img's src for the imaged users - img's alt for the imageless users - and abbr's title for users who think in 1's and 0's. Robert -- Robert Bachmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (OpenPGP KeyID: 0x4A5CCF10) _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss