Bob Woodside wrote: >> The ALT property of mini icons in the pager should be "", otherwise >> some browsers (at least Opera) use this name initially before the >> icons are loaded making the pager too wide initially. > > The standard way to prevent this is to specify the exact width & > height of each icon image, so the browser knows how much space to layout > for it before loading it. I think most of the current browsers will pick > up the title attribute for the balloon help if alt is missing, but older > ones don't, and I've no idea what Lynx does; so I think we should keep > the alt attribute.
The W3C standards are: * "alt" is used by text-mode browsers to display a description of "what you would see if your browser could display images" * "alt" is also displayed by graphical browsers if image loading is turned off (just like text-mode browsers), or the image hasn't been downloaded yet * "title" is _the_ property to use for popup-info Actually using "alt" for pop-up info is a bug/bad implementation of standards (according to W3C), but some (most) browsers allow it. Anyway, both "title" and "alt" should be provided with every image you wish to have descriptions/popups. -- \hoppke (Grzegorz Nieweglowski) http://lubuska.zapto.org/~hoppke/ -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
