[html4all] alt issue: image uploaded in bulk are not Web content

[Vlad Alexander (XStandard)]

I think my point in a previous email may have been too subtle. Images uploaded in bulk, through a camera (or FTP), are not _Web content_. They are just files which a Web application may use to decorate a Web page. These images are no different than Word documents or TIFF files uploaded via FTP.

All that has happened is that non-HTML files have been uploaded in bulk, no content has been authored here!

Since there files (images) are not Web content, the Web application should generate the img element with alt="".

Regards,
-Vlad
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