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longen

12:07 pm on Sep 26, 2004 (gmt 0)

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As handheld held devices become more common would it be useful to include the image size in the ALT tag, since many user will have image downloading turned off by defalt. For those of you with various PDA's - how are images dealt with - i assume you get a blank square with the alt text?

benihana

3:19 pm on Sep 26, 2004 (gmt 0)

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if they have images turned off, why would they care what the size is?

i would have thought it would be much better to use the alt attribute to describe the image, or a blank alt if the image is pure decoration

longen

4:36 pm on Sep 26, 2004 (gmt 0)

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>>if they have images turned off, why would they care what the size is?

I was thinking that visitors would choose to download some images of interest to them if they could estimate download times.

benihana

5:52 pm on Sep 26, 2004 (gmt 0)

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:) makes sense

that case its probably a good idea.

maybe some pda users could chip in....