You are correct. The Alt text was never intended to be the "hover help" There is another tag for that. There is a lot of discussion of that in:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74241 If you are curious. Mike Kaply IBM J. Robinson wrote: > I think some folks are used to the alt-tag showing when you hover your > mouse over an image a-la Netscape 4.61 and Internet Explorer. > > Quite often I just find it annoying (though not always), but from my > understanding the alt-tag is simply supposed to be there to provide a > description incase the image doesn't load, the user is using a > screen-reader, etc. That would then make Mozilla "in spec" with the > standards, then. > > It's funny what some companies get us used to. > > Jeff > > On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 20:20:55, Michael Kaply > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Can you please be more specific? >> >>When do you expect the Alt tag to display? >> >>Thanks >> >>Mike Kaply >>IBM >> >>Timo Maier wrote: >> >> >>>Hi! >>> >>>The alt="..." tag of images is not shown. >>> >>>Build ID: 2001100311 >>> >>>tam >>>-- >>>OS/2 4.50, Ducati 750SS '92 -> rausholen was drinsteckt. >>>http://tam.belchenstuermer.de/ >>> > >
