From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: shr: alt text truncation
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:00:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y692qf00.fsf@dod.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874obqqhrz.fsf@lifelogs.com>
>>>>> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>:
> 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?
Well the argument used by one person was that he used lynx to read the
web pages, because it was fast. And my ASCII art got in the way of the
fast aquiring of information.
Imagine that!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-09 23:00 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
2010-11-09 23:00 ` Steinar Bang [this message]
2010-11-09 23:12 ` Rupert Swarbrick
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