alt text 'abuse'

[Smigs]

the alt text on some things is ridiculously elongated, for example the 'usercp' button has the alt text:
"Here you can view your subscribed threads, work with private messages and edit your profile and preferences"
This belongs in the title="" attribute, which popups up in a tooltip, unlike alt="" (at least in mozilla). These make browsing with images off very unpleasent, making horizontal scrollbars appear; try out this (http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/validation.html) "show alt text" bookmarklet to see the difference.. it's a big difference.
If you want to put long explanations, use longdesc="" or title="", but for alt="" just gimme 'usercp', 'register', 'faq' and 'memberlist'!
Also... the 'bullet' next to the forum path links (ie: vBulletin Community Forum > vBulletin 2 > vBulletin 2 Suggestions and Feedback) has a really long alt text.. when it doesn't need one at all! all it is is a bullet! Just put 'V' or something to vaildate :)

What would also be useful is putting 'img' in one of the standard text classes (for css) so that alt text shows up in the right font, colour and size.

Ok, so all this is fairly minor.. but I want to browse with images off! ;-)

Smigs

[Raz Meister]

This could be fixed by giving each image an appropriate height and width.

[Chen]

This has been "fixed" for vB3. All current alt attributes has been changed to title, and alt now consists of the image name (at least most of the time). :)

[Scott MacVicar]

Im suprised you havent attacked our templates anc changed them all ;)

[Raz Meister]

I think he wants to leave the hard and repetitive work for the VB Dev team ;)

[Floris]

Hey! Where did that post with the screenshot of vB3 go?! (conspiracy!) [but fnx for the preview]

[Kier]

I deleted it. We're not showing that stuff at the moment.

[Floris]

Originally posted by Kier
I deleted it. We're not showing that stuff at the moment. Bummer! It was a nice screenshot *g*

[Raz Meister]

Originally posted by Kier
I deleted it. We're not showing that stuff at the moment. lol, I was going to ask if he had permission - but I thought it was too obvious :)

Doesn't matter - I've saved my copy ;)

[Smigs]

thanks for fixing it :-)

Originally posted by Razzie
I think he wants to leave the hard and repetitive work for the VB Dev team ;)
yeah - attacking all four of the vbulletin's I visit would be quite a feat, especially since i only have admin access to one (http://www.total-anime.com) of them (plug ;) )

Smigs

[DirectPixel]

Come one everybody! Open up Windows Explorer, and start digging up the files in the cache!:D

[Floris]

Originally posted by eiSecure
Come one everybody! Open up Windows Explorer, and start digging up the files in the cache!:D How much are you willing to pay for the search*.gif :)

[DirectPixel]

Originally posted by xiphoid
How much are you willing to pay for the search*.gif :) Nothing, since you don't have it in your cache.:)

[Floris]

C:\vB3>dir
Volumename station C is w00t
Volumenumber is 31-337

Map C:\vB3

26-07-2002 22:44 <DIR> .
26-07-2002 22:44 <DIR> ..
26-07-2002 22:44 <DIR> files (http://www.fileplanet.com/)
26-07-2002 22:43 <DIR> screenshots (http://www.kde.org/screenshots/)
25-07-2002 17:40 32.551 search_replace.gif (http://www.marietje.nl/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=642)
26-07-2002 22:44 <DIR> secret uplink with pentagon (http://www.defenselink.mil/sites/p.html#pentagon)
1 file(s) 32.551 bytes
5 map(s) 7.463.280.640 bytes free

C:\vB3>

[Scott MacVicar]

Matthew if your that bored you can sit and go through all four template sets and update them :p

I think he wants to leave the hard and repetitive work for the VB Dev team

Hes an admin on my forums :)