[Typo3-dev] tslib_content::getAltParam()

[Kasper Skårhøj]

It's Robert Lemkes call...

-kasper
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 14:42, Martin T. Kutschker wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> It's a good thing that Typo3 support also the title attribute (if only
> for images).
> 
> But I'm not happy with two issues. First, I'm unsure about the benefits 
> of using strip_tags() on the content since it's protected by 
> htmlspecialchars() anyway. It's not necessary and may lead to unexpected 
> results.
> 
> Second, I'm not convinced that the use-alt-for-title-feature is doing 
> any good. It may be convenient for a short period while sites make a 
> transition into proper using of title-attributes, but not more. IMHO it 
> would be more sensible to use the alt-text as title-text and have an 
> empty alt-tag. This saves bandwith and old-style alt-texts should in 
> 99.9% really be title-texts.
> 
> So I'm in favour of the following setup (to let site users have a choice):
> 
> Introduce a system flag that determines the alt/title-attribute 
> behaviour. The possible values are...
> 
> 0)
> 
> No re-arranging of attributes, alt- and title-attribute are used as set 
> and may be empty (only alt="" will be returned).
> 
> 1)
> 
> If the title-attribute is not set, use the value of the alt-attribute, 
> and make the alt-attribute empty.
> 
> 2)
> 
> If the title-attribute is not set, use the value of the alt-attribute 
> for both alt- and title-attribute.
> 
> Masi
> 
> PS: Is there any way to set alt and/or title attribute in the BE for 
> text w/image or images yet?
> 
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- kasper

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