Posted by joy
If you’re an up and coming e-commerce HTML Monkey “developer”, please remember the image alt tags. plz thx.
I really, really don’t enjoy cleaning up people’s work, especially for someone’s site design that was all .gif in the first place something so elementary as this.
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October 16th, 2004 at 4:05 pm
Here’s a Q. for you - is the proper, standards compliant image tag this - img src=”somesource” alt=”somedata” / ? (note the space between the end of the closing double quote around the alt string and the following forward slant).
October 17th, 2004 at 8:07 pm
Yeah, the forward slash at the end is xhtml complaint, apparently.
October 18th, 2004 at 8:05 am
Yes, it is required for well formed xml. But, it causes all browsers not to display the alt statement when the cursor is held over the image. I think you then have to use a title=”sometitle” to get that effect.
October 19th, 2004 at 5:57 pm
I just re-coded my DIY Perl blog content management system to do these image tags correctly, as in (with surrounding angle brackets):
img src=”source” title=”title” alt=”statement” /
Thanks for the motivation to do it right.