From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73990 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rupert Swarbrick Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: shr: alt text truncation Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:12:38 +0000 Message-ID: References: <874obqqhrz.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87y692qf00.fsf@dod.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289344395 23771 80.91.229.12 (9 Nov 2010 23:13:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 23:13:15 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M22358@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Nov 10 00:13:11 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PFxNF-00073l-6h for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:13:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PFxN7-00070K-H5; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:13:01 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PFxN6-000705-7Q for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:13:00 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PFxN1-000530-Og for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:13:00 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1PFxN1-0007K3-00 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:12:55 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PFxMz-0006tJ-Gb for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:12:53 +0100 Original-Received: from cpc2-cove3-0-0-cust910.3-1.cable.virginmedia.com ([86.20.35.143]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:12:53 +0100 Original-Received: from rswarbrick by cpc2-cove3-0-0-cust910.3-1.cable.virginmedia.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:12:53 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc2-cove3-0-0-cust910.3-1.cable.virginmedia.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:73990 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Steinar Bang writes: >>>>>> Ted Zlatanov : > >> On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:39:20 +0100 Steinar Bang wrote:=20 >>>>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen : >>>> ..., 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 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iJwEAQECAAYFAkzZ1WcACgkQRtd/pJbYVoZ+cwP/aFLo7W4KYpgIp3GX1leWJoC2 HnU0aguRu0z/E+WZRIoJ/H2/2lteHhxT2XQuVPSQhO9zc+uSZ28s6PYHE6fY0T2I aJaUzKQnKkNLDrnSCPmj0xRd0wQda9nMG6sZtKfLGDHv6L+AdA1xRo4KHMsrNjHY N4CQzIyXtHV53XF3ipE= =ktFO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--