t_hero.jpg.... why t?

[space-time]

ht_tp://images.apple.com/home/images/t_hero.png

[Seacrest]

I'll bet you don't even understand the meaning of "hero" in this context, but it is rather fitting.

[TheCaber]

technology

[deckeda]

design-speak

hero image: the main image on a page meant to capture the most attention among other images on the page. Biggest, boldest, etc.

On the other hand, I haven't looked at what other images on their pages have been called.

[silvarios]

Seacrest wrote:
I'll bet you don't even understand the meaning of "hero" in this context

Well, yes, I imagine that's why the question was asked.

[Seacrest]

No, the "hero" is the best chosen image from a batch of similar or versioned images.

So if they were deciding between a batch of different images of Steve to use, or working on that particular image until it was just right, either way the final image they put up is the "hero."

It isn't really a rule or convention that it's named that way, though.

The "t_" is still a mystery -- to me anyway.

[eightnine2718281828mu5]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thero

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Thero is an honorific term for fully ordained Buddhist monks in the Buddhist monastic order.
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[space-time]

Seacrest wrote:
I'll bet you don't even understand the meaning of "hero" in this context, but it is rather fitting.

I bet you don't even understand the question. the Q was about "t" not about "hero". Seems like the "t_" is a mystery to you.

[kj4btkljv]

Maybe there were many, many versions they had of Steve's picture, and they labeled the files with alpha-characters a thru t, and settled on the "t_" image...

That's my guess.

Jeff

[eightnine2718281828mu5]

from wikipedia

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Jobs then traveled to India to visit the Neem Karoli Baba[48] at his Kainchi Ashram with a Reed College friend (and, later, the first Apple employee), Daniel Kottke, in search of spiritual enlightenment. He came back a Buddhist with his head shaved and wearing traditional Indian clothing.[49][50] During this time, Jobs experimented with psychedelics, calling his LSD experiences "one of the two or three most important things [he had] done in [his] life".[51] He later said that people around him who did not share his countercultural roots could not fully relate to his thinking.[51]
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