Re: [Wikitech-l] A proposal to simplify and improve image markup in Wikipedia

2009-04-03 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ABCD wrote: > HÃ¥kon Wium Lie wrote: >> Note that Wikipedia's current markup for thumnnail images only use one >> alt attribute and it's empty: > > [snip] >> The only reason for keeping it is to claim validity wrt.

Re: [Wikitech-l] A proposal to simplify and improve image markup in Wikipedia

2009-04-03 Thread ABCD
27;d rather remove it. Having an empty alt= attribute also causes the image to be completely invisible in (some?) text browsers, notably Lynx. If there is no alt= attribute, then it appears as [Image], which I do not believe is desired. - -- ABCD -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0

Re: [Wikitech-l] A proposal to simplify and improve image markup in Wikipedia

2009-04-03 Thread ABCD
a Special:Preferences, or by appending ?uselang=foo or &uselang=foo to the URL. Otherwise, this seems to be well presented. - -- ABCD -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknV+vEACgkQOypDUo0oQO