XKCD alt text no longer readable in Chrome Android app

[Rob Percival]

I've noticed that a recent update has overhauled the dialog displayed when you long-press an image. It now displays a thumbnail of the image and a truncated copy of the alt text. This means that it is no longer possible to read long alt text, such as that found on xkcd.com. Was this intentional?

[Stephen Chenney]

There's a bug filed for this but I couldn't reproduce, and it looks like you've already commented on the bug.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1023085

Cheers,

Stephen.

On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 4:12 AM Rob Percival <robpe...@chromium.org> wrote:

I've noticed that a recent update has overhauled the dialog displayed when you long-press an image. It now displays a thumbnail of the image and a truncated copy of the alt text. This means that it is no longer possible to read long alt text, such as that found on xkcd.com. Was this intentional?

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[Joe Mason]

As a workaround (won't work for all sites), explainxkcd.com reprints the most recent XKCD comic with the alt-text on the plain page underneath.

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[Ian Clelland]

https://m.xkcd.com/ is the official mobile version, which shows the alt text in another element (revealed/hidden by tapping on the comic).

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