Extremely unrelated suggestion

Posted Apr 3, 2014 19:38 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Extremely unrelated suggestion by diederich
Parent article: A revoke() update and more

There are one additional thing one can do (besides hover): actual honest to goodness left click. In this particular case this will show large picture with acompanying text “Al Viro at 2014 LSFMM Summit” which means that detective skills are not really needed.

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Extremely unrelated suggestion

Posted Apr 4, 2014 16:47 UTC (Fri) by diederich (subscriber, #26007) [Link] (1 responses)

I am flabbergasted. Please accept my apology.

Extremely unrelated suggestion

Posted Apr 4, 2014 23:07 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (guest, #1954) [Link]

I never care enough about the picture to go to the trouble of clicking through, but I would read a caption if it were there. I might hover.

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Posted Apr 18, 2014 7:20 UTC (Fri) by hpro (subscriber, #74751) [Link] (1 responses)

While that does the trick, it is not particularly user friendly. I would prefer to not have to navigate away from where I am in the text to learn the name of someone in a picture. As soon as I navigate away the natural flow of reading gets interrupted.

Also, as I generally browse LWN though a mobile device I would also like to not have to eat from my data allowance by loading a large image, when I really just want to have some information that could easily have fit in a small caption.

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Posted Apr 18, 2014 17:47 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

I usually long click, inspect the URL in the popup dialog and then just ignore the popup. Having a caption on the image would be appreciated though.