- From: lilley <lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 11:32:48 +0100 (BST)
- To: murray.altheim@nttc.edu (Murray Altheim)
- Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org
Murray You have mixed up your attributions here. > >Mike Batchelor said: > > > >> Walter Ian Kaye once wrote... > >> > You could choose an arbitrary page size, but that would be making many > >> > assumptions. At least be sure no graphic is wider than 470 pixels, because > >> > that is the standard imaging area width for Netscape and Mosaic browsers > >> > when used on screens 640 pixels wide. Anyone with a 512-pixel wide screen > >> > or smaller would get the wrong size, although they're probably used to it > >> > already. ;) > > > >You should either apply your "no bigger than" argument rigorously - and I bet > >someone could find a platform somewhere with a narrower screen width than > >512 pixels - or apply your "probably used to it" argument to 640 pixels... Mike did not say that, I did. > I for one am VERY glad that > we have hard-of-sight and blind constituents, as serving their needs will > keep us on track. A strange angle possibly, but valuable. (I *try* to > remember the ALT attributes on my IMG elements.) Yes. I hope you did not assume from my comments that I hold a contrary position. I was just arguing against Walter Ian Kaye's 640 pixels hueristic, pointing out the problems with it. A tutorial I gave at Eurographics UK earlier this year addressed the problems of the print disabled. Have a look at: http://info.mcc.ac.uk/Docs/ActiveWeb/eg-uk-tut.book_9.html especially if you are unsure what to put in your ALT attribute. The answer is often nothing, ie ALT="" Disclaimer: the HTML in that document was automatically generated (by Webmaker). Yes, I know it is awful. -- Chris Lilley, Technical Author +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Manchester and North HPC Training & Education Centre | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Computer Graphics Unit, Email: Chris.Lilley@mcc.ac.uk | | Manchester Computing Centre, Voice: +44 161 275 6045 | | Oxford Road, Manchester, UK. Fax: +44 161 275 6040 | | M13 9PL BioMOO: ChrisL | | URI: http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/staff/lilley/lilley.html | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "The first W in WWW will not wait." François Yergeau | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
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