Re: [Docutils-users] title for images

[Roman S. <rn...@on...>]

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:

> Roman Suzi wrote on 2003-07-07:
> > My proposal:
> >
> > =========== ============= ========= ===========
> > ALT present TITLE present ALT shown TITLE shown
> > None        None          SRC       None
> > None        TXT           TXT       TXT
> > TXT         None          TXT       TXT or None?
> > TXT1        TXT2          TXT1      TXT2
> > =========== ============= ========= ===========
> >
> Question: do you envision any situation when having two different
> strings for them will be useful (considering interpretation variations
> accross browsers)?  Perhaps the writer should simply duplicate the
> same :alt: attribute of a docutils document as both ``alt`` and
> ``title`` attributes of HTML?

I do not know. But it is probably not so good to have one text
two times.

AFAIK, ALT is shown _instead_ of image, while TITLE is... a title
and some browsers show it as a tooltip.
This means, that sometimes ALT and TITLE need to be different.

For example, if I show a cover of a book, it's alt must tell something
like: 'Book cover' while title could tell something more for those who
already see that it's a book cover.

Title attribute contains advisory information. So probably in case title
is absent, it must not be duplicated:

> > =========== ============= ========= ===========
> > ALT present TITLE present ALT shown TITLE shown
> > TXT         None          TXT       None

This also is good when TITLE is present but not ALT: there is no need in
RST to write the same thing twice. Just write title and you get ALT
automatically.


Sincerely yours, Roman A.Suzi
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