Re: LYNX-DEV lynx on www.microsoft.com

[Drazen Kacar]

Laura Eaves wrote:

> If I'm reading you right, you have an invisible link to the graphics-intensive
> page and the "Here be ASCII text" link to the text-only page:
>    <a href="harry_graphics.html"><img src="whatever.gif" alt=""></a>
>    <A HREF="textish.html"><IMG SRC="t.gif" ALT="Here be ASCII graphics"></A>

Exactly.

> If the "invisible" link were displayed as [LINK], then the user would at least
> have the option of downloading or viewing the graphics page some other way.
> (Instead of making it invisible, you could say alt="graphics-intensive page".)

Yes, but the graphic page in question is really not important. For example,
image in the first example says "All about Dave" and the link leads to
the page with one really big, bandwidth wasting GIF with my natal chart.
That's a joke, more or less. Pages with usable content have text alternative.
I use TAB tag inside my tables and I provide ASCII alternatives for
graphs and some images I consider important. This isn't what your average
HTML author would do.

I prefer more control because I know what I'm doing, which, again, is not
the case with Joe. H. Author. So, do as you please.

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