Re: Inline flow of alt text.

Ian Hickson <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:37:21 +0000 (UTC)

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On Wed, 21 May 2008, Nicholas Shanks wrote:
>
> Looking through http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#alt I can't tell if the 
> points made in http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/alttext are normative in 
> HTML5 or not. Specifically the requirement that an image's alt text flow 
> inline and not be constrained to the image's frame.
> 
> I would like to see that they are, assuming no valid counter-arguments 
> can be made.

Your request has mostly been fulfilled now in the rendering section.

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