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Bug 10605 - Typo: Replace 'the alt attribute's value may be omitted' with '@alt may be omitted'
Summary: Typo: Replace 'the alt attribute's value may be omitted' with '@alt may be om...
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/embedded...
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Keywords: a11y
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2010-09-11 23:37 UTC by Leif Halvard Silli
Modified: 2011-01-21 04:14 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Description Leif Halvard Silli 2010-09-11 23:37:12 UTC 
#unknown-images
]]In such cases, the alt attribute's value may be omitted, but one of the following conditions must be met as well:[[

What does 'the alt attribute's value may be omitted' mean? I suppose that it was mean that the @alt attribute itself may be omitted.
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-09-29 07:57:00 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.
Comment 2 contributor 2010-09-29 07:58:33 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r5556.
Check-in comment: omitting a content attribute value makes no sense
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5555&to=5556
Comment 3 Martin Kliehm 2010-10-05 12:01:09 UTC 
Confirmation that this change made it into the W3C spec.
Comment 4 Martin Kliehm 2010-12-14 17:57:25 UTC 
The bug is fixed, the bug-triage sub-team asks the reporter to close it.