UbiquitySlideshow specification Wiki page shock and horror

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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Dylan McCall wrote on 15/07/09 14:51:
>...
> Localizable text around illustrations is meant to exist via alt text
> attributes. Presently they are useless, but some Javascript should
> make them more useful!

Text around the illustrations should use normal HTML. Text inside the
illustrations should be avoided. alt= should have a non-empty value only
for images that communicate information distinct from the text, which
images in a slideshow almost certainly won't.

> Interesting tning with the illustrations: they are not ever scaled.
> Text is at full size (7px). Thus the multiple illustrations are
> necessary to fit unscaled, solid looking information in (by breaking
> the important chunks apart, ideally in some kind of order). I don't
> think we could manage that for a single bigger one, but I can see the
> appeal of keeping things simple that way. Perhaps I'm missing
> something, of course!
>...

I don't understand what you mean here. What kind of "information" are
you trying to fit into the images?

I've attached a very quick sketch of what I suggest the slide show
should look like. Remember that most people will be paying only vague
attention, if any, so it should be really simple.

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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