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Posted by Andy Dingley on 10/01/19 11:17
On Sun, 29 May 2005 10:15:12 +0100, "Richard Quick"
<richard.quick@chocolatemagazine.co.uk> wrote:
>What's wrong with longdesc?
The first thing to note with longdesc is that it isn't a string, it's a
URI - a reference to another location where you can put a longer string
(or indeed a whole web page). Although it's common to put a few paras
of text into the longdesc attribute, that's just plain wrong.
Secondly, these uri-referenced description schemes ("d links" are
similar) have the problem that the break any useful linkage between the
object and its description. If the description page is indexed, the
target URI for this is then that of the description, not the object
itself (so only put one description on each page, and give a good
backward link to the real target).
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