Blog2020 ≫ Lovely mouseover picture descriptions on here now

Don't know why I didn't do this a zillion years ago, when you hover over an image with your mouse now it shows you the "alt text". This is a description of the image (or should be) intended for accessibility, but now it also gives you a little bonus content. Doesn't work at all on mobile or touch screen devices, where there's no concept of "hovering over" an image.

Now I must keep the alt text image descriptions up to date.

The source code for this is here, or less mangled here somewhere.

Screen grab of this page showing the tooltip in operation, how meta...

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Paulʼs weblog - I live some place you've not heard of near Folkestone, Kent. Wed + dad to 2, I'm a full stack web engineer, + I do js / node, some ruby, other languages etc. My hobbies are pubbing, parkrun, restaurants, home automation 🤖 and other diy jiggery-pokery, history, tree stuff, TV, squirrels, pirates, lego, and TIME TRAVEL.