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It's basically for the alt text, which you can display by clicking on "alt text", instead of having to hover to display the title attribute.

And actually, it's better on regular computer for this very reason IMHO. A link or button element could be used though for this button.

Fitting to screen width would not be great on many devices, the image could be too small.




You can long press the image to get the alt text on the desktop website.


Half the time on iOS, that now selects text within the image, which is cool, but not so helpful for the alt text.


Is it not cut when it's long? It was the case when I had a smartphone a few years ago, I don't know the state of it now though.





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