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From: Giorgio Brajnik
Date: Feb 10, 2004 2:11AM

I don't think it is a good idea to put this kind of content into css
rather than as an attribute in HTML. This kind of content is an
essential part of the page (it's not just style) and therefore it has
to be reachable (visible or audible) in the same way the rest is. If you
put it in CSS then all the devices that can't read CSS won't be able
to render it (for example lynx, Blazer on PALM OS, GoogleBot, etc.).
Regards,

Giorgio Brajnik
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<EMAIL REMOVED> said:

> In advanced browsers that support CSS generated content, this type
of code
> may eliminate the need for both alt and caption text.
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Strict//EN">
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>Untitled</title>
> <style type="text/css">
> <!--
> img:after {
> content: attr(alt);}
> -->
> </style>
>
> </head>
> <body>
> <img src="scenic.jpg" alt="This is a scenic photograph" width="406"
> height="273">
> </body>
> </html>
>
> I can't show you the results. It is my understanding that only
Opera 7+ and
> Safari supports this. For those who can't see the results, the content:
> attr(alt); displays the content of the alt attribute as text right
beside
> the image and with additional styling, fonts, colors, alignment and
other
> properties may be applied. I have also seen content from the
<title> tag
> displayed within the browser window but I can't remember the
details of how
> it was done - something very similar but it pulled the content from
the tag,
> not just an attribute.
>
> Idea came from:
http://www.literarymoose.info/=/synopsis/violate.xhtml, near
> the bottom are Floated Generated Content and Positioned Generated
Content.
>
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