Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 10/06/06 18:31

On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

> 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

Agreed. alt text is for use when the image is *not* being displayed.

> (which IE knowingly does). All other compliant browsers
> display the 'tooltip' using the title text.

That's a bit inaccurate, actually. Far be it from me to defend IE,
but it *does* use the title attribute correctly. It's only if the
title attribute is missing that it reverts to this older and
deprecated behaviour of making a "tooltip" using the alt text instead.

This can be defeated, if you don't want a title, by coding title=""

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