9161 2010-02-27 08:21:26 +0000 it should explicitly say alt="" MUST NOT be blank unless it MAY be left blank 2010-10-04 14:33:03 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-area-element P3 normal LC 1 contributor ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 32720 0 contributor 2010-02-27 08:21:26 +0000 Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-area-element Comment: it should explicitly say alt="" MUST NOT be blank unless it MAY be left blank Posted from: 220.210.139.122 34105 1 ian 2010-03-30 01:23:13 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Partially Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: The exact suggested text doesn't make much sense, but I've added a backstop requirement in case someone tries to argue that their case doesn't fall into any of the current sections and thus that the attribute in their case is optional. 34106 2 contributor 2010-03-30 01:23:55 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r4898. Check-in comment: Add a backstop requirement for 'alt'. This shouldn't actually change anything, but just in case... http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4897&to=4898