A travel log that documents a day's trip across the image-filled web. The log's contents were generated using a custom Chrome extension that looks for alt text - short descriptions that accompany many of the web's images. While alt text typically lives "behind the scenes", the log flips the concept inside-out: it brings the text to the surface, and reveals alt images only on inspection. This is the first part of our ongoing extension-based experiment, playing with forms and materials of the web.
By Anna Garbier and Lan Zhang
We made a chrome extension for our play experiment with forms and materials found on the web - "Today, I saw". At the extension's current stage, it can extract alt text of images on the web page you are browsing, the raw image javascript object containing the alt text and source data, and a bonus fun feature - a haiku generator.
You can clone this repo and use a simple live server through VSCode or drag index.html into your Chrome browser.
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