Considering internationalization: the alternative text should be translated to the language of the surrounding text, of course. I would recommend such a workaround only if some alternative text is required; see the OP. The point is that the browser tells the viewer that ho is missing some information that the designer considers important. Chris
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kornel Lesinski Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 9:18 PM To: Kristof Zelechovski Cc: whatwg Subject: Re: [whatwg] Alt text authoring Re: Conformance for Mail clients On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:58:13 +0100, Kristof Zelechovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For (2): alt="(Your browser does not display graphic images)". What's the point? Users who rely on alt attribute know that already, and unless exactly that phrase is required by the specification (= bad for i18n), it won't be any use for bots either. I think presence of the title attribute (which might be empty) could be required if alt is omitted: <img title="" src="canyon.jpg"> or maybe: <img alt="-" src="canyon.jpg"> and role of <img src="canyon.jpg"> should be left undefined, allowing UAs to use heuristics to guess it. -- regards, Kornel Lesiński