Proposal: ALT text for IMG does not allow carriage returns

eric@spyglass.com (Eric W. Sink)

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Date: Tue, 2 Aug 94 12:51:48 EDT
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Subject: Proposal: ALT text for IMG does not allow carriage returns
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I suggest we edit the document to specifically prohibit carriage returns
within the ALT attribute for the IMG tag.  I don't know what browser
supports this, but there must be at least one in the world, since
there are web sites making use of the "feature".  Nonetheless, I
don't think there's enough reason to call this Bad Idea (IMHO)
current practice.

Comments?


Eric W. Sink, Software Engineer --  eric@spyglass.com 217-355-6000 ext 237
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