Re: Images in Lynx

Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
David Woolley dixit:
> On 20/02/2023 16:54, [email protected] wrote:
>> I am curious as to why some images on web pages have links one can
>> click on to view the image (I use nsxiv) while others simply say
>> "Image" and offer a description but no link to activate the image.
>
> I think that is simply because some people/web sites code images as
> links to the full size image, when the image is editorial, rather than
> ornamental/branding.

Exactly. You can render the images themselves as links by pressing
the ‘*’ (astersk) key. These that were links already will now be
*TWO* links: the one you had before (target of a href) and one to
the img itself, probably a thumbnail.

bye,
//mirabilos
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