>
>On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 09:07:12PM -0600, Vidiot wrote:
>: With Netscape 4.x, if the rodent of pointing over an image, the ALT tag
>: text is displayed. With the Mozilla browser, the ALT text is no longer
>: displayed. Only when images are not loaded, as you so rightly point out, is
>: the ALT text displayed.
>
>This is a feature, not a bug. The proper way to do this type of thing is
>by using the title attribute to your <a> tags. Ex:
>
><a href="http://www.redhat.com/" title="The RedHat Linux Site">Click</a>
I'd have to try that, but 1) does the TITLE text display on the screen when
the rodent is over the link and 2) that doesn't do any good when it is just
an IMG tag and not a A tag.
I've used the ALT text to add an extra description for the image. It is
not only for sighted people, but for vision impaired it adds the extra
description as to what the image is.
>: I'm looking for an option to turn on ALT text display when the images are
>: downloaded and displayed, just like version 4.x.
>
>It was a poor choice of "feature" for the browsers to have introduced that
>behavior. ALT text was never meant to be a tooltip. Quoting the HTML 4.01
>specification:
>
> alt = text [CS]
> For user agents that cannot display images, forms, or applets,
> this attribute specifies alternate text. The language of the
> alternate text is specified by the lang attribute.
>
>If your browser can and is displaying the image, the alt information
>does not even enter into the picture.
Now I have to redo all of the work that I have done. It does not make me
very happy at all.
>: If there isn't an option, then I guess I'll have to turn in a request to
>: turn that feature back on.
>
>I highly doubt they will, since the title attribute of the <a> tag is
>part of the HTML 4.01 as well as XHTML 1.0 standards. Gecko seems to
>be very rigid in its support of HTML 4.
I wasn't talking about the TITLE tag, but the ALT tag. The specification
for the ALT text does NOT preclude the broswer from displaying that text.
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