Posted by GreyWyvern on 08/18/05 00:11

And lo, William Tasso didst speak in alt.www.webmaster,alt.html:

> Red E. Kilowatt <kilowattREMOVE@aww-faq.org> said:
>
>> ...
>> The purpose of alt text is not so that a page will validate.
>
> Correct, and it should be remembered that validation in and of itself is
> not an end but rather a means.

Validation is like a spell-checker. I knew a lot of peers in school for
whom the spell-checker was the last step in preparing papers for
submission; proofreading be damned.

I'm not sure about other languages, but with English, it sometimes becomes
necessary to break a few rules for the sake of literary expression. This,
however, is only done when one has a very firm grasp of the rules being
broken, as well as a thorough understanding of the reasons for doing so in
the first place.

The same holds true for (X)HTML, AFAIC.

Grey

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