Juerd: you should probably use a title like "(OT) clearpixel". The (OT) let's people know that this thread is off-topic. I use that quite a bit and so far I haven't been flamed for it :) That being said, you could use alt="" to set the text to nothing, but there are several browsers out there for visually impaired people and I suspect that they will handle that differently.

With proper CSS, you could eliminate the clear pixels entirely. Even if the gif exists, sometimes a browser will fail to load it and then you get a bunch of broken images in your browser. Very unprofessional.

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to (Ovid) Re: clearpixel alt texts by Ovid
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