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I'm a bit confused. It doesn't seem like this is very "lorem ipsum". Lorem ipsum looks like actual text, whereas, this does not look like actual image content
by prewett 17y ago
I'm a bit confused. It doesn't seem like this is very "lorem ipsum". Lorem ipsum looks like actual text, whereas, this does not look like actual image content (due to most images not being solid gray). To my mind, a better lorem ipsum image would have a variety of colors, shading, textures (which is probably why Lenna is a popular choice). This way you could see how a variety of image colors work with your design, color scheme, etc.
If this is simply for formatting placeholders while designing web pages, wouldn't <span style="width: xxx; height: yyy; background-color: grey; border: 1px solid black;"></span> be a pretty easy workaround, and a lot easier on the network bandwidth?
- kingkool68 17y agoSee here -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1077158 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1077158
- prewett 17y agoI'm not sure I follow your response correctly, but it seems like your response is: it's easy to switch image sizes this way. But you still have to edit the HTML, and it's not that hard to edit the width/height. Maybe I don't understand? The more important point to my mind is that grey is definitely not lorem-ipsum. It doesn't help me evaluate anything except image size. And since it's easy to get a sized placeholder, a server to generate a URL seems not that helpful.