Look into how to enable alt text syntax for images

[decentral1se]

If I do this in a post:

![my alt text](https://...)

I get:

<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://..."/></p>

The alt="my alt text" doesn't seem to make it through the conversion?

[cblgh]

oh dang, the differences in markdown renderers. it probably never worked in that case!

[cblgh]

note to self (written in my couch):we can use the markdown package’s ast modification to try to get the alt text and set it properly:https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/blob/master/examples/modify_ast.go while we are at it, we can move the lazy loading into the same gomarkdown-specific code and out of the server or database package where it currently residesmight also be good to upstream the bug report:https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/issues

[decentral1se]

Nice, yes, that looks promising. Thanks for looking into it.

Issue upstreamed in the meantime: gomarkdown/markdown#318

[decentral1se]

Oh nice some source codez gomarkdown/markdown#318 (comment)

[cblgh]

@decentral1se just spun up my dev forum, and i'm having alt text displayed! but not title which is more useful for browsers when assistive tech isn't turned on, unless you do like in gomarkdown/markdown#318 (comment) and have it at the end which i don't think anyone will remember tbh lol

can you give me the exact post input you are using so i can repro the issue you opened this with?

here's what i used which works

a post with some alt text imagery soon

![teh alt text](https://tendigits.space/assets/img/drawtober-2024-19.jpg "Title")
okay nice

and actually the drawtober thread is a good example of alt text being used and actually in the markup! https://forum.merveilles.town/thread/101/drawtober-2024-67/#1887

[cblgh]

@decentral1se i'm now using the alt text to also set the title attribute :) check out e478e28

[decentral1se]

oh sheeeyat, that's great stuff! ok lemme do a test on the forum / dev instance and hopefully we can close this one out 🙏 nice detective work & patch!