[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 5566] ALT attribute value sometimes not displayed when image is missing

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5566





--- Comment #68 from Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis at googlemail.com>  2011-12-18 17:56:21 PST ---
(In reply to comment #67)
> Gérard, Benjamin; unless you plan to make a patch, I think it is useless to discuss all that here, it should be discussed on the W3C or WHATWG.

Those are the right places to discuss what the specs should say, but that's not my purpose here. I'm just trying to understand the patcher's intentions and his reasoning. In comment #45 he indicated he wanted to stop showing @title. In comment #47 he asks "Should we be using the title attribute as an alternative to no alt attribute specified?" The patch as it stands adds a test case for using @title, but then he says "This 1st submittal is just to get the current code to work as it I think it was intended" in comment #48. Other people's contributions are welcome obviously, but mainly I just wanted to hear from the patcher (Joe) …

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