I am curious as to why Firefox only understands the title attribute when
creating tool tips, why cant we just use ALT?
ALT is for alternate content only and should be visible only when image is
not. It is like noscript and other HTML fallbacks.
TITLE was created especially for tooltips.
All
Because it shouldn't. IE is the one who does it wrong. There is an
extension though, if you're that silly :/
http://www.gadgetopia.com/2004/11/09/FirefoxALTTagsAndTooltips.html
On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 10:11:36 +, Joey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am curious as to why Firefox only understands
From: Joey
I am curious as to why Firefox only understands the title
attribute when creating tool tips, why cant we just use ALT?
Cause if we want tool tips on our sites to work on all browsers
this means we have to enter an ALT TITLE attribute which doubles
the code for the same thing?
On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 10:11:36 +, Joey wrote:
I am curious as to why Firefox only understands the title attribute
when creating tool tips, why cant we just use ALT?
I'm not sure I understand your question.
Myself, I've always wondered why IE shows the alt attributes when, to
be properly
it?
Or is it the same and doesn't matter?
TIA
johannes
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From: Rob Mientjes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: [WSG] Why does firefox tooltip only TITLE attribute and not
ALT?
Because it shouldn't. IE is the one who does
From: Johannes Reiss
a href=xxximg src=xxx alt=yyy title=yayaya
But I always prefer:
a href=xxx title=yayayaimg src=xxx alt=yyy
Is it wrong how I do it?
It depends on what information you're providing with the
title. Are you clarifying something about the image, or
about the resource you're
to the a href-Tag.
thanks
johannes
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From: Patrick Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 12:45 PM
Subject: RE: [WSG] Why does firefox tooltip only TITLE attribute and not
ALT?
From: Johannes Reiss
a href=xxximg src=xxx alt=yyy
sorry, once more:
The point is, that modem users and other people, who surfe without shown
images can decide which of the images they want to see ... and therefore I
think, that I must provide both, the TITLE and the ALT, with this
information (that it is a link and the KB's of the larger image),
From: Johannes Reiss
Because I always give information about the KB of the large
image, I think
it's right to give the TITLE to the a href-Tag.
Exactly, as the information about KB refers to the large version
you're linking TO, rather than the thumbnail itself, the title is
indeed best off
In case anyone ever stops by my desk and notices that I've got that
show ALT as tooltip Mozilla extension installed, surely there's a
special case for developers? It's much easier to check alt attributes
with the tooltip than by reading source code after all.
It's much easier to check alt attributes with the tooltip than by
reading source code after all.
You can install Web Developer Toolbar extension or press G in Opera.
--
regards, Kornel Lesiski
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Wll I think that if there is no TITLE set, why would it hurt to make the
ALT a tooltip?
I often see an image and think - what is that supposed to be?
And If I am lucky they have a title, but more often they have an ALT...
So I need to use the webdev toolbar to get the ALT text to see what its
Chris Stratford wrote:
Wll I think that if there is no TITLE set, why would it hurt to make
the ALT a tooltip?
Well if they deviated from standards by doing this and users came to
expect it because sites displayed additional information in the tooltips
then a competiting browser would need to
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