From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: shr: alt text truncation
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:00:32 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874obqqhrz.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yb0y6923n7r.fsf@dod.no>
On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:39:20 +0100 Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote:
>>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:
>> ..., and the alt texts are often just the url itself, so it's awkward.
SB> In the early days of the web, 1994 or thereabouts, I experimented with
SB> putting ASCII art versions of the image in tha alt attribute.
SB> I was quickly told to stop doing that.
Why? You can probably get very close these days if you allow Unicode
glyphs :)
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-09 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-05 0:53 Katsumi Yamaoka
2010-11-05 1:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-05 8:22 ` Steinar Bang
2010-11-08 20:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-09 8:39 ` Steinar Bang
2010-11-09 17:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-09 22:00 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2010-11-09 23:00 ` Steinar Bang
2010-11-09 23:12 ` Rupert Swarbrick
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