Robert Bachmann wrote: >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 > > wouldn't that imply that ABBR is the abberviation of the IMG and not the IMG alt? maybe that is one and the same thing?
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