[Foundation-l] Clickable images

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
There are two things to consider;
* Pictures in our projects should be Free. This means that the pictures 
should be usable in any context.
* Because many of our projects are not Free for simple re-use, there is 
a need to do stupid contortions by always show the license.

It is imho better to sort out the underlying problem than to prevent 
things that improve usability. I think is really bad that it is now 
suggested not to have clickable images.
Thanks,
    GerardM


Guillaume Paumier wrote:
> On 9/9/06, effe iets anders <effeietsanders at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> thank you for your reaction. I think your idea of putting the image in
>> the page it points to is a good idea. But I would like to broaden the
>> discussion a bit. We are now thinking about where it is used, and how
>> we can talk it right. I think we should actually think about how we
>> can use it in the broadest sense, so we can afterwards find out when
>> we can use it. The point is that people will always come up with new
>> uses of the template, and I think we should somehow state clear what
>> is allowed and what not. I only know of the use in main pages, but it
>> is also used broader I guess.
>> It could be used for flags to link to countries, or for roads, to link
>> the the article about it. (Like A1, A2 etc in
>> http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam ) So what are your thoughts
>> about it when you forget about the main page, and think in general?
>>
>> Lodewijk
>>
>>     
>
> Actually, it seems your example about motorways isn't an image but a
> formatted text ;)
>
> Anyway, you're right to say we should make things clear. My opinion is:
> clickable images should be avoided. The general policy is the
> license-information should be available by simply clicking the image.
> First-time visitors are a bit surprised by this, but if we start mixing
> clickable and non-clickable images (that means respectively images pointing
> to an article/portal and images pointing to their description page), the
> situation will soon become a huge mess. Otherwise, people don't know where
> they're going to land when clicking an image.
>
> In a nutshell: avoid clickable images.
>
> g.
>
>