On 7 September 2011 22:26, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Turning off images should be, and can be, done by the user-agent. >> We have a help page describing how to do this.
> That would be the page with the great big "this page is out of date" notice > at the top, giving instructions that are not valid for the most common user > agents (Firefox 2?). And it spends a great deal of time talking about > altering people's personal userspace. Like David said....a nice simple > switch to turn them on and off without having to log in: that's what people > have asked for. Mucking about with their user agent is beyond the technical > comfort level of most internet users, and in some cases is not possible. > (Example - many publicly accessible computers are set up so that no programs > can be added or modified without sysadmin permissions.) +1 This is really low-bandwidth usability. I've tried editing Wikipedia on dialup ... it's annoying enough waiting for all the Javascript these days on 1Mbit. "Images on" "Images off" in a sidebar, switching the CSS live? - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
