2006NOV141208

Well that sucks. I created a quick css hack for adding text over the images. I can make an image that when clicked can go to the intended url. But cannot get it to be valid strict xhtml. Has to do with nested tags (href around divs). Though I can use the text/image for pictures with text. Could not find any simple way (aside from adding single character by character) for vertical text.

 

'... We had a couple embedded languages within the editor, in fact.

Another one, which we didn't expose directly to the users, was for

describing images. Viaweb included an image generator, written in

C, that could take a description of an image, create that image,

and return its url. We used s-expressions to describe these images

as well. ...' [0]

 

I'll leave it at that. I might look at using code to generate text over images but that is way too complex for my needs. The complexity comes in aligning text over complex images. If you look at Paul Grahams site all the link graphics are created by generating text on a background through code. While the code is cool, images themselves are lame.

 

As a rule I don't like images for titles (waste of bandwidth). But the flickr moo cards look nice. Text placement is the problem with complex images (light text over dark works. Light text over light areas do not.) But I got around this by careful placement of the text. Add white text into dark areas. Hence the placement at the top/bottom.

 

Reference

[0] Paul Graham, 'Lisp in Web-Based Applications, Talk to BBN, Cambridge MA, April, 2001':

lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/bbnexcerpts.txt

[Accessed Tuesday 14, November 2006]

 

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