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

[Vlad Alexander (XStandard)]

For an image to be non-decorative, content must be authored. Since we agree that the act of bulk upload does not author content, therefore these images are decorative.

>>   What makes JPEG files content?
> Their incorporation into a web page.
Decorative images are also incorporated into a Web page, but decorative images are not content.

Regards,
-Vlad
http://xstandard.com




-------- Original Message --------
From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Date: 2008-04-15 1:43 PM
> 
> Vlad Alexander (XStandard) wrote:
>> Hi Phil,
>>
>> What is the difference between uploading a 1000 JPEG files versus 1000 TIFF files?
> 
> Little, though the former could be intended
> to be rendered by an unaugmented browser whilst
> the latter could not ...
> 
>   What makes JPEG files content?
> 
> Their incorporation into a web page.
>>> what is the basis for your assertion ...
>> Content must be authored. When a person uploads images in bulk, no content is authored.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
>   All that is happening is a Web application is displaying different decorative images through a template.
> 
> No, that is your interpretation : I can see no
> basis for your claim that an image becomes
> "decorative" simply because it was uploaded
> at the same time as several (or many) others ...
> 
> ** Phil.
> 
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