Christian Mattar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How can I make Netscape 6 display ALT's when I pass the mouse over the
> ALT's are not meant to be displayed as tooltips (and thus giving
> additional information to an image), but as replacement for the actual
> image (by describing the content of it).
> Use the "TITLE"-attribute to create tooltips.
This is the correct answer and i appreciate that Mozilla/NN6 doesn't
encourage authors to abuse the ALT attribute any more.
But there is a disadvantage: Long text for small pictures when pictures
are not loaded.
Lynx for exmaple renders alt-text perfectly. It gives it all the space
that it needs.
Mozilla instead still keeps the picture's size free in most cases. so
there is a hole in the page for each picture that is not shown.
But alt-text may not leave it. Even if it exists it is unreadable in
most cases because it is "hidden" behind the background of the page.
Only a piece lurks out from the "hole" the missing image leaves. In some
cases it is even half hidden in the absence of horizontally aligned
images.
AFAIKS there is no real UI to schow full length alt texts.
Check <http://www.apple.com/developer/> with disabeled image-loading for
an example!
Tooltips might be a solution, as long as they are only rendered, if _no_
image is present or in a loading process (no matter if depended on
broken links or the user switched it off).
Greeting, Michi
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