I second the motion. I've run into this elsewhere. As it turns out, according to the W3C standard, the alt attribute (not tag) is for alternate viewing methods (such as for PDAs or for voice-synthesis output for blind people). As such, it's not supposed to be displayed when you hover the mouse over it. Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, of course chooses to ignore the standard, and displays it anyway.

Mozilla gets it right, and doesn't display the text. And it does display the contents of title attributes. They weren't joking when they said that Mozilla would be a standards-compliant browser. I have therefore submitted a patch to add title attribute to img elements, as well as the alt attribute.

The only debate now is whether people think it's a good idea for pop-up text to appear when you hover the mouse over an image, or not. I'm all for it, but I don't mind if it's decided that it's not worth it.

So, what do people think about this?


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In reply to Re: Monk images at the top of the page (it's an attribute, not a tag) by grinder
in thread Monk images at the top of the page by castaway

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