Provide better ALT Names on images.

[Dragosvr92]

@sooskriszta, No..... My point is that the images on phpbb3 already have a alt, but it loads a text.
They should make it load the name of the image betwen the img tags.

[sooskriszta]

I understand what you are saying. In backend, alt is already happening.

/a3 mentioned that adding alt tags to bbcode may break existing bbcodes. I am saying, they don't have to, since the url bbcode already works the way we want the img bbcode to work.

Also, in addition to alt tag (your suggestion), I am saying that (once your suggestion is implemented), the alt tag should also be copied over for title tag (tooltips)

[Dragosvr92]

Also, I would suggest that the alt text be duplicated into title text as well for tooltips.

Thats not needed. The titles are sometimes disturbing.
If the user wants the name of the image into the title, he can just copy the output from the alt to the title.

[sooskriszta]

Just to make sure we are talking about the same thing, when I say title tag, I am referring to the title="" within img, e.g.

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<img src="http://area51.phpbb.com/images/area51.png" alt="Area51 logo" title="Area51 logo" />

Alt is what you see in the placeholder before the image has loaded.
Title is what you see in tooltips (small box at bottom right of mouse arrow pointer) when you hover on the image (or placeholder)

[Dragosvr92]

Yes i know what you meant from the start.
My point still stands. I think the title tag is not needed, and a bit annoying in some cases.
As long as the alt is generated you can add the title tag yourself, but copying the string inside the title.

[/a3]

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[url=http://www.phpbb.com/]Visit phpBB![/url]
[url]http://www.phpbb.com/[/url]

are allowed.

Can't the same be done for img without breaking anything?

Yes, that would be better. The only (small) downside is that special characters (eg. "]") would break it, which is why having the ALT description inside the tag may be slightly better (eg. [img=URL]ALT[/img])

This could be fixed by having quotes, similar to the quote tag - see example:

Test

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[quote="[u]Special characters![]()*[/u]"]Test[/quote]

However, quotes wouldn't be allowed ("") since it is inside quotes.

But then we don't want to break things either.

My suggestion for phpBB 3.2 is either have:

1. Have something in the update process to phpBB 3.2 which changes the BBCodes so that the URL is in the image, eg. [img=URL]ALT[/img], but might cause some confusion for users of other bulletin boards, or
2. Use [img=ALT]URL[/img] which would not break anything, since [img]URL[/img] would still be allowed, but with minor disadvantages (see above).

Both of these would be better than the current system, which is having no alt text at all.

[sooskriszta]

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[url=http://www.phpbb.com/]Visit phpBB![/url]
[url]http://www.phpbb.com/[/url]

are allowed.

Can't the same be done for img without breaking anything?

Yes, that would be better. The only (small) downside is that special characters (eg. "]") would break it, which is why having the ALT description inside the tag may be slightly better (eg. [img=URL]ALT[/img])

Not quite sure what you are saying....the url bbcode seems to be the correct model for what you are suggesting as well....

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[url=http://www.phpbb.com/]Visit phpBB![/url]
[url]http://www.phpbb.com/[/url]

So, basically if we replicate this for images

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[img=http://www.phpbb.com/]Visit phpBB![/img]
[img]http://www.phpbb.com/[/img]

The latter of the 2 types of img already exists, and since both types exist for url, i don't see any reason why both can't exist for img...meaning it should be possible to add

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[img=http://www.phpbb.com/]Visit phpBB![/img]

without breaking anything

[/a3]

Yes, true, that's a #3, and probably better.

[Dragosvr92]

We Dont need a new BBCode. We can use the existing one and use the image name as alt. Its just PHP.....

[Dragosvr92]

So.. Where are we with this?
Please go back on the first page and read what i and Arty have talked about.
/a3 was just talking nonsense. There is absolutly no need to change the image bbcode. No offense.
When the topic page loads with the images, it reads the images and from their name it sets the alt. Or whatever way you might want to set, maybe set some new table with alt names for all images.... idk