On 7 September 2011 22:26, Risker risker.wp@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That would be the page with the great big "this page is out of date" notice at the top, giving instructions that are not valid for the most common user agents (Firefox 2?).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.