LYNX-DEV improving on [IMAGE]

[Philip Webb]

970604 Robert Bonomi wrote: 
> I'd like to propose that this toggle display things, not as  "[IMAGE]",
> but as "[{name}]", where "{name}" is the 'least significant component'
> of the fully-qualified pathname of the image.
> e.g. "[CORPINFO.GIF]"  for <IMG=/disk2/home/www/images/corpinfo.gif>.
> 
> Rationale:  _Most_ of the time, there *is* _some_ 'intelligence' transmitted
> by the -name- of the image.  Nowhere near as much as a 'proper' ALT= string,
> of course.  Worst-case, the name is meaningless -- e.g., they just serial-
> numbered the images.  However, this scenario is _no_worse_ than the present
> one, where 'image' conveys absolutely -nothing- about the content.
> 
> So, at worse, this is no worse than the present [IMAGE], and in all other 
> cases, it is superior.

an excellent idea, if it's easy to program.

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