Questions tagged [images]
For questions about the images used on Stack Exchange sites or about using images in your own posts.
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More and more images go missing. Can the cooked HTML be rebuilt?
Would it be doable to re-generate the cooked (cached) HTML of all posts that hold images and were last edited between August 16 2010 and June 21 2011?
Many references to i.imgur.com were ...
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Automatically resize high-resolution screenshots
On a modern Apple device with a high-resolution screen, if I take a screenshot of a window, this is what I get:
As you can see, when the image is displayed normally, it's too big.
Because my screen ...
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Why are images of text, code and mathematical expressions discouraged?
Often I see new users posting images, containing the text of the question they were intending to ask, or a part of it. This is especially true for the science and math based sites where new users don'...
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I am getting the wrong image when uploading a picture
I have just tried to upload an image on Puzzling (although have checked and it is happening in both chat and on other sites) and it generated a link to a picture I have never seen before.
It doesn't ...
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How can I write good alt text?
When editing Stack Exchange posts, a whole ton of them don't have alt text on images. Alt text is important so the visually impaired that have to rely on screen readers can experience and value Stack ...
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Links to tinypic.com are about to become permanently broken on August 26, 2019
I notice that there is an image link that no longer works at the end of this recently updated page in Meta.SE.
I suspect that this is only one example of many items that have links to tinypic.com.
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Markdown links and images are producing incorrect HTML
The problem appeared recently.
Images and links are not displayed correctly.
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Unable to edit my own question that has been edited by another user who included a picture
Amusingly, this happened in another meta question.
I'm a brand new user with a reputation of 1. I posted a feature request, then someone kindly edited and provided a very useful image. I wanted to ...
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Could we revisit WebP support with the new uploader?
There's a feature request from last year requesting WebP support. I'd say the arguments made there were persuasive, and I'd encourage people to take a look at that post.
I'd say that with the new ...
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What smart ways to prevent "image rot" can we come up with?
I think so far this has only been mentioned in comments, like about preventing link rot. So:
What smart ways to prevent images from disappearing can we come up with? Like maybe: how could we prevent ...
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Upload images by drag-and-drop
Some image hosting sites like Imgur and min.us support image uploading via drag-and-drop in Chrome and Firefox. It would be nice if you could upload an image and add it to your post by dropping it on ...
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Add an image to a tag [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What do icons on the tags mean?
I would like to add a little image to a tag. What it the needed reputation for that? How could I do that?
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There should be a more descriptive error on image uploading failures
Trying to upload an image, I get the response "Failed to upload image, please try again!"
Well, of course I tried again. And again. And again, and again and again --- I guess you got it.
So what? ...
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Add an Image Upload button to the Mobile Site
With the release of iOS 6, the most commonly used mobile browser now supports standard generic image upload buttons. This is actually really handy. I can take screenshots on my phone or iPad, and use ...
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Stack Exchange policy on images and the visually impaired
This question relates particularly to SE Biology, but has aspects that impinge on other Stack Exchange sites. It concerns insertion of images and their viewing by users who use screen readers.
Is it, ...
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