[identity profile] harimad.livejournal.com 2007-10-11 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Is there often mouseover text? What else have I missed?

H,
whose faves are "Nash" and "3 hours of fascinated clicking later"
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[personal profile] cos 2007-10-11 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
Every single xkcd has mouseover text. Sometimes it's just a comment on the comic, or an afterthought, but other times it's a second punchline that may be even better than the first. Now you have to go back and read them all :)

Someone at the talk at MIT asked Randall how many readers read the mouseover text, and I think he said probably less than 10%. I was surprised.

[identity profile] miss-chance.livejournal.com 2007-10-11 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Also, if you use Firefox and don't already have it, there's a FF Add-on that displays the whole alt-text instead of truncating it. I think of it as the xkcd-Add-on.

[identity profile] harimad.livejournal.com 2007-10-11 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Excellent. I was running into the problem last night. Where do I get it?

[identity profile] khedron.livejournal.com 2007-10-11 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I use the "Long Titles" add-on in Firefox for precisely this reason. Umm, Tools > Add-ons, click "Get Extensions" link, search for "Long Titles", &c.
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[personal profile] cos 2007-10-11 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Cute. I think I knew about that, but I'd already trained myself to read xkcd in Safari (which is also what I use for LJ).