>>>>>>>>>>>> Laura Stewart wrote (2007-01-16 13:55:22): > For Derby-1842, I updated the alternate text (aka Alt text). The Alt > text appears when you hover your mouse pointer over a graphic image in > Internet Explorer but not in Firefox. > > Does anyone know why?
The HTML standard does not require a browser to show the alt text
unless the image cannot be rendered:
User agents must render alternate text when they cannot support
images, they cannot support a certain image type or when they
are configured not to display images. (HTML 4.01)
Firefox is a graphical browser and as such does not ahev to display
it, while w3m and lynx are text only browsers and "must" render the
text.
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Bernt Marius Johnsen, Database Technology Group,
Staff Engineer, Technical Lead Derby/Java DB
Sun Microsystems, Trondheim, Norway
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