Re: LYNX-DEV lynx on www.microsoft.com

[Klaus Weide]

On Sun, 4 May 1997, Wayne Buttles wrote:

> > Lynx should treat ALT=""  just the same way it treats a missing ALT , by
> > reporting [LINK] , with a number if links-are-numbered.  there's no
> > reason to expect authors to make some use of the distinction between the
> > two cases to warn readers that some links are to silly graphics, rather
> > than useful visual information (even if the official rules say so).

I disagree.

> I have every reason to believe that if someone took the trouble to put in
> ALT="" then they meant it not to be viewable to text browsers.  By
> changing that behavior we will break the intended look of MANY web pages.

I agree.

> Now, as far as <a href="a-url-for-crawlers"></a> goes...isn't that what
> this is for:
> 
> l  LIST   list the references (links) in the current document
> 
> A beautiful feature!  

Note that, with current fotemods, those will not appear in the LIST any
more IF "Links are numbered" is in effect.

For the record in this increasingly confusing discussion - I have no
intention (of course!) to change the code so that it would create "[LINK]"
or similar for images with ALT="" if IMAGE_TOGGLE is OFF.  I also have no
intention to change the code so that it would _not_ create pseudo-ALT
strings as it does now if IMAGE_TOGGLE is ON.

   Klaus

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