ALT specification

Philippe Jausions (Philippe.Jausions@chasseneuil.em.slb.com)
Fri, 9 Jun 95 10:56:44 METDST


Hi everybody !

I have a suggestion for ALT attribut (IMG tag). Why don't we use it with full HTML syntax and not just with simple text. I mean, what do you think of such use :

<IMG SRC="pictures" ALT="<PRE> ._.<BR> / \<BR> / \<BR>/-------\<BR> | |_|<BR> | __ |<BR> | <A HREF=door.html>||</A> |</PRE>"> My House !

Which could be displayed like this:
._.
/ \
/ \
/-------\
| |_|
| __ |
| || | My house !
^
|___________ here a link

This could be useful for terminal browsers which does not support imagemap, or for users who don't load pictures to save bandwidth, or when you print the page in a text layout.

Of course this means a very strict use of (") or something like [] or {}.

That was my suggestion.

Ph. Jausions