2009/6/23 Remember the dot <[email protected]>: > Hello fellow developers, > > In Håkon Wium Lie's recent analysis of Wikipedia image markup ( > http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2009/wikipedia/image/), he makes a good > point: we include image captions both below images and again in the images' > tooltips.
This is actually only the case if you use the keyword 'thumb' or 'frame'. If you just do [[file:foo.jpg|this is my caption]], then you only get the "tooltip" (usually called "alt" text for images). <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_attribute> You may be interested in reading this English Wikipedia guideline, as part of its Manual of Style: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Alternative_text_for_images> In short, alt text is important for accessibility. Also, for inline images without explicitly defined tooltips, the > image name is used as the tooltip even though it is also shown in the URL > when mousing over the image. Neither of these automatic tooltips are really > useful, and they slow down page load time on image-heavy pages. They might not be useful for you, but they are useful for others. On what basis do you say they slow down page load time? I would be surprised to find that supplying or not supplying alt text made any difference. Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
