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Image Replacement Quirks

Sent by Chris Heilmann on 23 June 2004 08:08


Spartanicus wrote:

>"Richard Grevers" [EMAIL-REMOVED]> wrote:
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>>If an image is "purely decorative" then it contains no textual  
>>information, probably has an empty alt text, and requires no "replacement  
>>technique".
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>I'm talking about the current fad to no longer use the <img ...> tag and
>replace it with spans or divs sized in css with the desired image
>specified as a background image. Am I wrong to refer to this as "Image
>Replacement"?
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Yes you are. Googling for image replacement brings up this nice 
introduction *http://www.stopdesign.com/articles/replace_text/*
What you mean is "keeping all visuals in the CSS", which might make 
sense in a certain environment, but normally doesn't.




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