FoRK and Spam..

[Gary P]

>On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Shreyans Bhansali wrote:
> > How would the GIF thing work? You said there's an image gen script - how
> > does it generate the images?
At 04:51 AM 3/19/2002 -0500, Dan Brickley wrote:
>There are any number of ways of generating images with text in. The GD
>library, for example. It's a clever trick, but sucks for visually impaired
>users, and for Web auotmation generally.

This can also be done now with the System.Drawing library built into MS's 
.NET framework. [1]    If your purpose isn't intentional obfuscation (as in 
the FoRK archive discussion), you can always generate ALT tags as well for 
visually impaired people; I've found it very useful for clients who still 
_need_ the fancy font look in their headlines, and it avoids using 
Photoshop for every new headline (just change a querystring in an img link).

I'd hope that (authenticated) SOAP/XML-RPC/Other would be the preferred 
alternative for web automation, but you could also grab the ALT text...

-g

[1] <http://www.aspalliance.com/chrisg/default.asp?article=108>