[Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

[David Gerard]

On 7 September 2011 22:26, Risker <risker.wp at 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 That would be the page with the great big "this page is out of date" notice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.