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Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 03/30/06 00:34
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, nn wrote with an unattributed quote:
> > Most browsers don't display alt text when the mouse is pointing at
> > images.
> > The purpose of alt text is to be displayed *instead* of the image
^^^^^^^^^^^
> > if it can't be displayed.
> >
> > IE is about the only exception.
But even IE doesn't do that when there is a title attribute
present.[1]
> * It has worked fine until a few days ago.
The WAI would disagree with you. Doing what you previously expected
was *not* "working fine", but could be rated as misbehaviour.
> * I use the ALT attribute on my own website, so I know it should be
> displayed. Others still see the Alt text.
If this is about pages that you're authoring yourself: just use the
title attribute as it's intended, and stop worrying about it, IMHO.
Naturally you should be choosing appropriate (i.e usually different)
texts for the two. If you're presently hoping for the alt text to
appear as a pop-up, I'd dare to predict that you'd be choosing an
inappropriate text for the alt text's *intended* purpose. If I'm
wrong in your case, then you'd be an exception to some general rule,
IMHO.
[1] IE's alt text misbehaviour can be suppressed by supplying
title="", if no other title is wanted. At least, it did when I tried
it (normally I wouldn't use IE instead of a real web browser - but one
does have to check these things now and again... no, I haven't
sampled IE7 beta.)
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