[WikiEN-l] One reason why Wikipedia is not presently classroom-safe

Tue Feb 22 22:27:44 UTC 2005

Tony Sidaway wrote:

> Christiaan Briggs said:
>> Well you'll have to excuse me, you seem clear enough of mind not to 
>> have missed this: as we discussed image holders could be used in the 
>> same way as using your browser to defer image downloads. The 
>> difference would be that only some of the images would be deferred 
>> instead of all of them.
>
> It seems to me that which images are to be deferred would be decided 
> by someone other than the reader.  This would probably compromise 
> NPOV.

To use a browser as you suggest defers ALL images. This way defers some 
images. And in either case the user is in control as which images are 
then loaded. Please Tony, I beg of you, why are you talking in circles?

Christiaan