Re: LYNX-DEV Auto-ALTs

[Hynek Med]

On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Al Gilman wrote:

> The basic idea there was a short-term fix of adding the _full_
> URL cited in the link text, as for example 
> [LINK to href-value_inserted_here]

Well, you can see the URL on the bottom of the screen when in Advanced
mode, anyway, and URLs are so long to read..  I'd like this rather to be
both - suppose there is news.gif image, with a link to some news stuff, so
it would be: 

[LINK: news - href-value_inserted_here]

Or maybe optionaly switch between this and [LINK: news]. 

> In the long term I think we should be working toward the day that
> the TITLE values for pages get percolated forward so clients in
> text mode could use them as anchor text.  This sure beats [dot].

Surely. But there are pages which show up as 

[INLINE] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK]

[LINK] [INLINE] [LINK] [INLINE]

[LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [INLINE]

Best viewed with [LINK]. 


(I like the last line best. :-)

In these cases, the image name gives at least some information.. 

> As for the things that come up [INLINE] or [IMAGE], it is hard to
> say what to do automatically.  Many of them actually deserve to
> have ALT="" so that in pure text mode they Just Go Away.

That's true.

Hynek

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