Thanks for your reply Acorn,
As it is a "licensed" plugin, and therefore not anything to do with Xara, I would not expect it to rank high on their To Do list.
I see this similarly, but this issue should rank higher. If making Highslide fit for todays demands is out of reach for any reason one should rather throw the legacy
3rd party plugin out of the main app and make it loadable on demand.
Creating a sample site for the latest release however, which makes heavy use of HS in a way which looks poor on Desktop and performs badly on Mobile
is not exactly a good idea, if you ask me.
...I wouldn't worry about SEO aspects of not being able to name the images; in my experience (limited), it is not a high ranking issue for good ranking
Apart from big G strongly suggesting spending time on narrative image names I find that anyone who publishes unique artwork online should have a vivid
interest in placing the most important keywords in the file name. There's image metadata too to place such info, including copyright, but a lot of Internet Users
are not aware of this concept. In times where site visitors just grab what they like to republish it somewhere else, on Blogs or Pinterest and such, a narrative
image name helps identifying the source. Additional artwork appearances on high ranking pages such as Pinterest seem to get evaluated by search engines
and there's whole industries which make more use of image search than regular web search.
My personal experience with respect to a Xara exported large site (online since 2012): Named full size background images are ranking fine in image search.
Hundreds of images which all were properly named before they got exported (and auto-named) via Highslide aren't found at all. One can only see the images
if one actually visits the website in question.
Here's btw Highslide portion as it appears in the .htm file for each page:
One can see the proper source file name and the auto-generated file names for thumbnail and extended image. Don't laugh – I have already spent time manually
renaming everything back to something meaningful!
HTML Code:
<a href="index_htm_files/8.jpg" class="xr_rn_ highslide" onmouseover="hs.headingText=''" onclick="return hs.expand(this, { headingText: '' } )">
<img class="xr_rn_ xr_ap" src="index_htm_files/my-awesome-filename.jpg" alt="My cool caption" title="Testtest" onmousemove="xr_mo(this,0,event)" style="left: 182px; top: 167px; width: 396px; height: 182px;"/>
How does the 365 version deal with normal images (not using Lightboxes). Are they finally output with their file name inherited or does one still need to use the
filename="desired output name" workaround for every single image?
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