Posted by dorayme on 07/02/07 22:48

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windandwaves <nfrancken@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jul 2, 8:37 pm, dorayme <doraymeRidT...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> > If the picture is not
> > available, then it is not as useful as it could be for the user
> > of the web site to know to "click to enlarge, click to reduce".
> > Perhaps you might be interested in using "title" for this, this
> > way it could help folk be more curious.
>
> Yes, totally agree. There are 170 images, I have to enter all the
> images alts one by one, so I need time to do this. The images are
> only there for colour, a bit of mystery,

I understand this. And also the mystery bit and I like it. The
use of title in the link would perhaps spoil the mystery. <a
href="" title="click to enlarge, click to reduce" alt="..."> This
brings up a little tool tip in many browsers with the text that
you put in the title.

About the alt text, when you get around to it (yes, rf, I did
take a couple of alt text pills) considering the mysterious
aspect, you could perhaps convey it by a slightly cryptic one:

alt="A morsel that gets meatier with a little bit of mousy
action"

This would nicely be a replacement for those unable or unwilling
to see images. You see, they would not see the morsel (the
thumbnail) and would not see the enlargement either. But there
would still be that ineffable sense of mystery conveyed. Even
more so. In fact, as these alt text pills are starting to take
stronger effect on me, I see that it may even be in your
interests to recommend that people do not have images turned on,
what about defaulting this situation via javascript and the spell
of mystery enhanced... no perhaps this is a bit silly. I will
from now on only take 1 alt text pill when discussing alt text.
>
> Thanks again for all your notes. You are cool!
>

That is true, I have just turned on another bar on the heater.

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dorayme

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