Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 10/06/06 18:01

Harlan Messinger wrote:

> Which may sound pessimistic to some, but there is at least one case of
> a non-standard feature disappearing: the ALT text that was displayed
> in a bubble in Netscape 4 (and still is in IE) was gone with version
> 6.

Do you mean the 'tooltip' bubble? If it displays ALT text as a tooltip,
it is a mistake (which IE knowingly does). All other compliant browsers
display the 'tooltip' using the title text.

<img src="..." alt="Displays if images turned off" title="This will
display as a 'tooltip'" height="nnnpx" width="nnnpx">

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