Nero Fangirl
Yeah, let's ignore the most confusing fact about all of this: the fact that things should apparently work perfectly well as a list of names. =/
I'm sorry, but demand that "Reader should not read trope article, the title alone should be enough" attitude strikes as Viewers Are Morons...
But having to look up what someone is talking about in the middle of a sentence because you don't know a word and lack the context is even more grating because then you have to wander off to another page instead of just seeing a little phrase to help you out.
It's possible someone would have to look up what Bathos is, but we don't change it to "Bathos (story-telling technique)". It's possible someone would have to look up Yakuza, but we don't call it Yakuza (gangster). This isn't something we do anywhere else.
Can Fast Eddie jump in and explain if the Laconic mouse over thing would be possible, once we fix the Laconics so that they actually make sense?
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.Good luck with that.
Last time I tried to get an effort going to clean up Laconic (before we had Special Efforts, mind), it went nowhere because the majority of the people thought Laconic wasn't in trouble. We might have critical mass this time, though, and I will certainly help out with that.
I'm bad, and that's good. I will never be good, and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be than me.If no one starts a thread until later, I'm starting it. We should start cleaning up laconics.
I've attempted to get laconics fixed
. It never goes anywhere.
edited 24th Jul '11 11:38:37 AM by shimaspawn
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. DickStarted a Special Efforts thread here
. Let's hope this goes better than my poorly thought-out TRS thread on the subject.
How is this going to work though with the fact that older browsers generally show only 20 characters of alt-text? It's really more of a modern thing to be able to show long strings of alt text. Until recently even firefox needed a specific plugin for longer strings.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. DickActually, just the opposite tends to be true. There's a group of users that update regularly, but the majority are stuck with old tech and old O Ses for various reasons. IE 6 still has a huge market share.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. DickMore than one version back it's an issue for just about any browers. Two for Firefox, but it's a very recent thing that they fixed. Basically, anything from 2009 or before is likely going to have issues right out of the box.
edited 24th Jul '11 12:47:03 PM by shimaspawn
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
