I can't figure out how to make a tablet/touchscreen browser do the "stinger" punchlines on XKCD's comics; these show up on a PC when the mouse cursor hovers over the image. The stingers are often funnier than the image.
In this particular cartoon, dark-haired scientist goes on to provoke the following stinger dialog:
"You know lightning, right? When electric charge builds up in a cloud and then discharges in a giant spark? Ask me why that happens."
"Why does tha--"
"No clue. We think it's related to the hair thing"
On an iPhone, a long press on an image will bring up a copy/save image menu that will have the alt-text on it.
For some reason this doesn't work the same on an iPad, so I use this: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100404045906105 It works in both Safari and Mercury browsers (probably others as well, I haven't tested them all).
If you go directly to the website itself on a mobile, it brings up a mobile-friendly version that has a click to show the alt-text. Unfortunately, it doesn't work if you arrive there by a link from somewhere else.
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I can't figure out how to make a tablet/touchscreen browser do the "stinger" punchlines on XKCD's comics; these show up on a PC when the mouse cursor hovers over the image. The stingers are often funnier than the image.
In this particular cartoon, dark-haired scientist goes on to provoke the following stinger dialog:
"You know lightning, right? When electric charge builds up in a cloud and then discharges in a giant spark? Ask me why that happens."
"Why does tha--"
"No clue. We think it's related to the hair thing"
On an iPhone, a long press on an image will bring up a copy/save image menu that will have the alt-text on it.
For some reason this doesn't work the same on an iPad, so I use this:
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100404045906105
It works in both Safari and Mercury browsers (probably others as well, I haven't tested them all).
I don't know what to do on Android.
If you go directly to the website itself on a mobile, it brings up a mobile-friendly version that has a click to show the alt-text. Unfortunately, it doesn't work if you arrive there by a link from somewhere else.
At least those are known unknowns!
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