No alts in firefox?

#1

Downloaded Firefox tonight and I was playing around with it. One thing I
noticed is that no alt text shows up. Is it just me, or is it FF?

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On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 01:51:10 -0600, Starshine Moonbeam
<silverbells (AT) tacoshells (DOT) com> wrote:

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Downloaded Firefox tonight and I was playing around with it. One thing I
noticed is that no alt text shows up. Is it just me, or is it FF?

If you mean alt text to show up as a tooltip: That's one of the
(mis)interpretations of IE. FF doesn't show them, because they're not supposed
to be seen if the image is seen. If the image has a title as attribute, FF will
show the title just fine, again as it is supposed to.

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On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 01:51:10 -0600, Starshine Moonbeam
silverbells (AT) tacoshells (DOT) com> wrote:

Downloaded Firefox tonight and I was playing around with it. One thing I
noticed is that no alt text shows up. Is it just me, or is it FF?

If you mean alt text to show up as a tooltip: That's one of the
(mis)interpretations of IE. FF doesn't show them, because they're not supposed
to be seen if the image is seen. If the image has a title as attribute, FF will
show the title just fine, again as it is supposed to.

Ahhhhhhhh. That explains it then. Thanks.

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Starshine Moonbeam schrieb:

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Downloaded Firefox tonight and I was playing around with it. One thing I
noticed is that no alt text shows up. Is it just me, or is it FF?

it's the wrong implementation of alt in IE. IE believes alt tag means
not 'alternative' but 'tooltip' which is wrong... FF interprets it
correctly. stick with FF and your life will get brighter :-)

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On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 12:05:10 +0100, Bernhard Sturm
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Starshine Moonbeam schrieb:
Downloaded Firefox tonight and I was playing around with it. One thing
I noticed is that no alt text shows up. Is it just me, or is it FF?

it's the wrong implementation of alt in IE. IE believes alt tag means
not 'alternative' but 'tooltip' which is wrong...

In fairness, it does both. IE does implement alt correctly, but it also
implements it in a different, and IMO inappropriate way. (If the author
wants the little popup, there is HTML to do that already.)

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In message <41D926E6.5050009 (AT) datacomm (DOT) ch>, Bernhard Sturm
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Starshine Moonbeam schrieb:
Downloaded Firefox tonight and I was playing around with it. One
thing I noticed is that no alt text shows up. Is it just me, or is it

it's the wrong implementation of alt in IE. IE believes alt tag means
not 'alternative' but 'tooltip' which is wrong... FF interprets it
correctly. stick with FF and your life will get brighter :-)

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'title' and 'alt' present ....... IE shows the 'title' contents in the
tooltip

'title' only present ........... IE shows the 'title' contents in the
tooltip

'alt' only present ............. IE shows the 'alt' contents in the
tooltip

Quite a smart decision IMO.

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jake wrote:

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Starshine Moonbeam schrieb:

Downloaded Firefox tonight and I was playing around with it. One
thing I noticed is that no alt text shows up. Is it just me, or is it

it's the wrong implementation of alt in IE. IE believes alt tag means
not 'alternative' but 'tooltip' which is wrong... FF interprets it
correctly. stick with FF and your life will get brighter :-)

bernhard
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'title' and 'alt' present ....... IE shows the 'title' contents in the
tooltip

'title' only present ........... IE shows the 'title' contents in the
tooltip

'alt' only present ............. IE shows the 'alt' contents in the tooltip

Quite a smart decision IMO.

regards.

Not really... it's a pain. If you have a design that uses layered
images, for the site to validate you should be using meaningful alt
tags. If IE is displaying the damn things it looks really messy if you
drag your mouse slowly over the content. So you end up having to put
blank title attributes in there as well. Another code bloat just to fix
a IE 'glitch'.

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In message <41D926E6.5050009 (AT) datacomm (DOT) ch>, Bernhard Sturm
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Starshine Moonbeam schrieb:

Downloaded Firefox tonight and I was playing around with it. One
thing I noticed is that no alt text shows up. Is it just me, or is it

it's the wrong implementation of alt in IE. IE believes alt tag
means not 'alternative' but 'tooltip' which is wrong... FF
interprets it correctly. stick with FF and your life will get brighter :-)

bernhard
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'title' and 'alt' present ....... IE shows the 'title' contents in
the tooltip
'title' only present ........... IE shows the 'title' contents in
the tooltip
'alt' only present ............. IE shows the 'alt' contents in the
tooltip
Quite a smart decision IMO.
regards.

Not really... it's a pain. If you have a design that uses layered
images, for the site to validate you should be using meaningful alt
tags. If IE is displaying the damn things it looks really messy if you
drag your mouse slowly over the content. So you end up having to put
blank title attributes in there as well. Another code bloat just to fix
a IE 'glitch'.

But. If you're downloading a page into IE with graphics switched off and

you want to maintain the layout (i.e. not expand the image box to
display the alternative text) you can still see the alternative text as
a tooltip. Very useful.

For every cloud there's a silver lining ......

regards.

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jake schrieb:

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'title' and 'alt' present ....... IE shows the 'title' contents in the
tooltip

'title' only present ........... IE shows the 'title' contents in the
tooltip

'alt' only present ............. IE shows the 'alt' contents in the tooltip

Quite a smart decision IMO.

in fact it's a purely a wrong implementation: if you are a webdesigner
you want your 'alt' texts as alternative texts for UAs which do not show
any images, hence text browsers. And you use your 'title' as the title
of your image which will be visible TOGETHER with the image information
(hence accompaigning content to the images content).
For example take an image explaining how an e-commerce ordering
proceudre works. In your alt tag you would then describe this procedure
in text-form (because your audiance will not see the image, only the
alt-tag info). Further you ommit the title tag as it will not be
necessary for you image.
Now go figure how smart it is, if IE shows the 'alt' for this image...

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jake schrieb:

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Not really... it's a pain. If you have a design that uses layered
images, for the site to validate you should be using meaningful alt
tags. If IE is displaying the damn things it looks really messy if you
drag your mouse slowly over the content. So you end up having to put
blank title attributes in there as well. Another code bloat just to
fix a IE 'glitch'.

But. If you're downloading a page into IE with graphics switched off and
you want to maintain the layout (i.e. not expand the image box to
display the alternative text) you can still see the alternative text as
a tooltip. Very useful.

go and read the W3C specs: alt tags are not tooltips... it's just a
misunderstanding of alt-tags

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