Actually, that's very cool. I wasn't aware of the "title" tag for images up until this point, always including the alt tag as a courtesy to folks that needed it. Up until this point I found it very annoying that if you had a image-button labelled "nostril" and an alt-tag that said "nostril button", you'd mouse-over your nostril button and get something that looked like help saying "nostril button". Yay. It clutters the design and serves no additional purpose what-so-ever. But until this point I didn't know how to selectively have something like that appear without ending up ignoring folks with special needs.
Thanks for the insight! Jeff On Fri, 5 Oct 2001 04:15:07, Mike Kaply <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/ > >>> > > > > > > -- ---------------- Whatza JamochaMUD? http://jamochamud.anecho.mb.ca Or other stuff: http://www.anecho.mb.ca/~jeffnik ----------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------
