Christiaan Briggs said:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
The technical solution is in place. Nearly all
modern browsers can
disable image downloads. The most we could do with a site-based
system would be to emulate the capability that already exists in
modern browsers.
Disabling images using your browser is indiscriminate. A site-based
system would allow us to discriminate.
Up to a point. With cat-based disabling you're at the mercy of
cat-vandalism (possible solution: the cats in question are permanently
protected and a VfD-style process is used to allocate images to those
cats). However it's incorrect to say that disabling images is
indiscriminate. It effectively provides the same facility as linking (you
click on the picture you want to see) with the difference that the picture
appears alongside the text instead of in a separate window or tab.