Chris Stratford wrote:
Wll I think that if there is no TITLE set, why would it hurt to make the ALT a tooltip?
Well if they deviated from standards by doing this and users came to expect it because sites displayed additional information in the tooltips then a competiting browser would need to break standards too in order to support users expectations.
Firefox was in this situation with IE. They could either support people/software who misuse ALT text to add additional information to images (typically for crappy gallery sites, menus), or they could obey standards. Legacy or standards, an age old question.
With the TITLE attribute whose W3C use is "This attribute offers advisory information about the element for which it is set" there's now a way to have additional info. Rock on.
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