https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31747
--- Comment #5 from Daniel Friesen <[email protected]> 2011-10-19 08:04:24 UTC --- (In reply to comment #4) > (and who doesn't display images really) - Blind users - People on slow connections who turn off images because it speeds things up - Likewise people on slow connections who defer to text browsers because they have less to load > It could be crafted in a manner that the image becomes unreadable to bots. > Image could be fragmented to make OCR impossible or very difficult. For > instance OCR will have great difficulty recognizing a character if the > character is broken in to two or more images. Or it could be one image per > character. Also it is possible to add fake/invisible images in the mix that > machines would pick up but not people. > > The more difficult it is for bots the better for us. I am fully aware there > are > ways around every precaution but that shouldn't mean we should surrender to > spam bots. And real users should lose out on a valid bit of usability, the ability to not have to manually type in an e-mail address and instead click a link to send an e-mail. Because of spam? ...imho, that's like saying Wikipedia should turn anon editing off because of vandals. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
