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Subject: Re: shr: alt text truncation
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>>>>> 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!