[Petal] attributes question

[Chris Croome]

Hi

On Sun 27-Jul-2003 at 06:36:24PM +0100, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:
> 
> What's the use of an empty 'alt' tag?

As Patrick pointed out [1] it is used quite often to enable pages to
be validated and not have pointless alt text for things like 1px
spacer images... This is not a style of web design I would advocate
but there is a lot of it out there...

Chris

[1] http://lists.webarch.co.uk/pipermail/petal/2003-July/000560.html

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