Comments on: Any-Element Linking in HTML 5 (sort of)

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:20:26 +0000

You see, I expected you to all be on my case for not using the abbr element to spell out what “DILF” stands for, not harrass me about the alt text, which was a typo. It should say “love God!”. As an American vice-presidential candidate I have to feign religious belief, and command others to do the same.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:33:07 +0000

Does the image even need alt text in this case? Presumably there’s no information carried in the image, unless the point of including the image is to make some comment about the appearance of Bruce, which is actually covered in the article with the word “DILF”.

By: Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:13:20 +0000

Cheers, Bruce! I’m deeply sorry I’ve been unable to get back to you about this. Must finish silly culture/politics posting and get on this one, pronto.

By: Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:20:39 +0000

As an accessibility guru^W advocate, I’d have thought you’d have used more realistic alt text…

By: Krijn Hoetmer

Krijn Hoetmer — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:58:01 +0000

You “need” closing tags (at least for p) and a { display: block; } though..

By: trovster

trovster — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:56:41 +0000

Although this is nice, as it’s a good behaviour in some cases, do you think users will understand what is happening? I know they’ll work it out eventually, though.

Currently, I solve this with JavaScript, with a quick jQuery plugin I’ve written. Although, my test-case is not live yet. You can view the code at http://www.trovster.com/lab/code/plugins/jquery.fitted.js though, it’s not been thoroughly tested as I refactored it recently. The actual trigger might not currently work. Not sure why but the trigger doesn’t work, so I have to use the window.location which is currently commented out.