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Forum feature request: set Alt-text by default for all embedded images [SOLVED]
by
LoyceV
on 17/02/2018, 19:13:30 UTC
⭐ Merited by JanpriX (2) ,DooMAD (2) ,qwk (2) ,mprep (2) ,EthanB (1) ,DarkStar_ (1) ,BTRIC (1) ,TMAN (1) ,PowerGlove (1)
The forum acts as a proxy for all embedded images. This is a privacy feature to disable tracking pixels, but it's also slow. I've seen threads where people replied without having seen the images, thus missing valuable information.

I only thought of using alt-text today, and this works. While the image is still loading, my post can show a message about it.

Example
Code:
[img alt=Image loading...]https://bitcoin.org/img/icons/logotop.svg[/img]
Shows
Image loading...
(press Shift-reload to see it in action)

My suggestion: is it possible to set this alt-text as a default for all embedded images?


Throbber test
Code:
[img]https://bitcoin.org/img/icons/logotop.svg[/img]
Shows



Update for (manual) further improvements to embedded images: if you set the exact image size, the post "reserves" the required space even before the image is loaded.
Example:
Code:
[img width=190 height=40 alt=Image loading...]https://bitcoin.org/img/icons/logotop.svg[/img]
Shows
Image loading...
(press Shift-reload to see it in action)