From: Rupert Swarbrick <rswarbrick@gmail.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: shr: alt text truncation
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:12:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ibckh8$li9$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y692qf00.fsf@dod.no>
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Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
>>>>>> 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!
Nowadays, I guess that screen-readers would have trouble too. "hyphen
hyphen slash slash slash..."
Rupert
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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
2010-11-09 23:12 ` Rupert Swarbrick [this message]
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