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Subject: 
alt text misbehaviour? (was some other stuff
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lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.admin.nntp
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lugnet.admin.nntp
Date: 
Mon, 12 Apr 2004 19:16:56 GMT
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In lugnet.aquazone, Ley Ward wrote:
   In lugnet.aquazone, Tim Courtney wrote:
   In lugnet.aquazone, Nikolai Pieniazek wrote:

  
   I used plain ol’ FTX, including how the guide says to do alt text.

I suppose that’s why it didn’t show up as a caption (Ley). I wonder if it automatically quotes alt text in replies instead of inserting the image?

I took the carrots

Carets?

   off to keep the image from appearing again (I often snip the pics to keep my message shorter as I tend toward verbosity(1). I only saw the alt text in the response window where everything is raw. The other replies with pictures don’t show the alt text (to me, anyway).


   Nik - in the future, you could put the alt text in the image tag, *and* repeat it below the image for captions if you like. That would make sure that people get to read the text, instead of just chancing on it by doing a mouseover.

-Tim

I don’t get the alt text on a mouseover either. Is this another case of my mileage varying? I’m not complaining; I like the ‘hidden message’ quality (I can see some uses for that), but that is lost if it doesn’t work like that for most people.

I’ve XFUT to admin.nntp so that the nntp/FTX wizards might notice this thread and see if there is any anomaly worth investigating here or not.

++Lar



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(...) I took the carrots off to keep the image from appearing again (I often snip the pics to keep my message shorter as I tend toward verbosity(1). I only saw the alt text in the response window where everything is raw. The other replies with (...) (21 years ago, 12-Apr-04, to lugnet.aquazone, FTX)

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