2009/6/23 Brianna Laugher <[email protected]>: > Also, for inline images without explicitly defined tooltips, the >> image name is used as the tooltip even though it is also shown in the URL >> when mousing over the image. Neither of these automatic tooltips are really >> useful, and they slow down page load time on image-heavy pages. > > They might not be useful for you, but they are useful for others. On > what basis do you say they slow down page load time? I would be > surprised to find that supplying or not supplying alt text made any > difference. > You're right, this sounds like absolute nonsense. The time it takes to set and/or display these tooltips is nothing compared to the time it takes to download and display the images themselves. Image-heavy pages load slowly because they contain a lot of images (surprise!), most other factors are negligible.
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