[thelist] Good alt texts [was .gif texts]

aardvark roselli at earthlink.net
Mon Jul 10 10:09:14 CDT 2000


> From: "vidman design" <vidman at starnet.com.au>
> > 
> > <img src="foo.gif" width="1" height="1" alt="">
> 
> I might be missing something here but why have an alt tag for a
> spacer. gif at all? Why not just- <img src="foo.gif" width="1"
> height="1">
> 
> All those little <alt=""> just add up to bigger page sizes..

because the trade-off between the usability and the 500 bytes is 
worth it... that's like arguing against quoting attributes to save a few 
bytes... it's true, but is it worth it?

and consider this pasted from Lynx of http://www.clientlogic.com/:

ClientLogic
The Service Engine of the New economy
[INLINE] [INLINE] [INLINE] [INLINE]
Contact Us Careers
[INLINE]
QuickTour
[INLINE]
[INLINE] Global Overview
Global Overview

[INLINE] [INLINE] [INLINE]
[INLINE] [INLINE] [INLINE] [INLINE] [INLINE] [INLINE]
News
[INLINE] [INLINE] [INLINE] [INLINE]

ClientLogic Announces Two-Day Job Fair
[INLINE]
View All News
[INLINE]
Marketing Services

etc...

all those [INLINE] are un-alt'd spacer .gifs...





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