[Typo3-dev] Core or extension? was: IMAGE.alttext RC2 possible bug

[Robert Lemke]

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 18:19, Martin T. Kutschker wrote:
> > - It's not neccessary to change the core, if something should be changed
> > for the creation of alt / title tags. That is important, because many
> > sites won't update their core for one and a half year or so, until the
> > next stable release comes out
> 
> I don't see what might happen.

Okay, in this case it might be very unlikely. But what about the
longdesc attribute, isn't that recommendet as well? I know, it's only
detected by NS 6+ and only if you click your way through the properties
of that paticular image, but maybe in a year or so that's required?

But it seems you're right.

> > Imagine that someone would like to force his backend users to always
> > fill in the description (alt / title attribute) of all images being
> > uploaded. Implementing that as an extension is fairly easy now because
> > no strict default implementation is done yet.
> 
> The site admin should be able to make any field required (and vice 
> versa). This shouldn't be hardcoded in the extension (or the Core).

But it would be, because this is defined in the TCA. If you use an
extension which creates two new fields in tt_content, it also provides
the TCA configuration.

> So you're argueing to do it as an extension with the option to ship it 
> with the standard distro or as a "WAI-package".
> 
> I'm not convinced because alt/title are so intrinsically linked to HTML, 
> but a shy extension in the standard 3.6 distro would satisfy me. If this 
> means anything to you ;-)

I think it's important to discuss these things. I mean, it's easy to
create two new tt_content fields, but I know that there are many people
who don't like a big tt_content and who possibly won't use title / alt
attributes, although it's recommendet.

> PS: But please remove strip_tags() :-)

If I remember the RFC right, title and alt attributes are of the type
CDATA which means no tags are allowed there anyways. So if you can give
me an example of a situation when strip_tags would break something you
need, I'll remove it.

-- 
robert

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 And I dare to say, I’m doing just fine without ;)"