[uf-dev] Suggested new parsing rule for alt text

Drew McLellan lists at allinthehead.com
Fri Mar 23 01:30:10 PST 2007


On 22 Mar 2007, at 17:14, Andy Mabbett wrote:

> I suggest that this rule be adopted, for *all* microformats, unless
> there are good reasons for specific exceptions:
>
>         Where an element contains only an image element, and the  
> parser
>         is expecting text, the alt text of the image should be used.

tbh I though that this was already a rule. It's a rule native to  
HTML, so we therefore inherit it for free.

It certainly seems like common sense, and I believe hKit already  
behaves in this way.

drew.



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