Tony Sidaway wrote:
Nicholas Knight said:
The solution you suggest is inconvenient and impractical,
This is untrue. I use it myself daily.
You're not everyone.
and can be avoided simply by not inlining the image.
Doing that simply removes control of part of the browsing experience from the user and gives it to the website owner, which is generally perceived to be A Bad Thing.
Inlining the image removes no less control from the user.