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Icon and label attributes give the visible and textual representation of the command. This is actually a really elegant way of handling what is now handled by <a href><img alt="">Display Text</a>. Label is not currently required, but it should be. Suggest adding an attribute that shows or hides the label, so you could have a button that is just an icon, but that has a label anyway. This would be great for toolbars that shrink and grow based on widow size.
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: Accepted Change Description: no spec change Rationale: This seems to have been fixed already, assuming you are referring to <command> and not <menu>, <option>, or <optgroup>.
http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/44061/20080513_bugs/results#xa4 Spec is now consistent with the change request in this bug.