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On Monday 14 June 2004 07:10, Andreas Pour wrote:
> Gavin Hamill wrote:
> As to the latest HTML, 4.01, it is not at all true that using ALT in a
> popup is incorrect. See
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/objects.html#alternate-text and compare
> to http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#title .
First, be aware that the same question caused a somewhat large debate on the
Mozilla newsgroups. One might have a look there for additional arguments. The
result, as you note, was not to display alt-tags. The key phrase, as remember
was this:
<qoute>
Several non-textual elements (IMG, AREA, APPLET, and INPUT) let authors
specify alternate text to serve as content when the element cannot be
rendered normally
</quote>
Note the "when cannot be rendered normally". This precludes using ALT-tags for
mouse-over in any reasonable interpretation of the standard. Just so that is
clear.
The big question is: Should a browser do it anyways? That question is no. Try
contacting Ian Hixie from the Mozilla QA team for a nice chat about this.
Besides (I believe) sitting on the w3.org group that drafts these standards,
he is a real capacity in these areas. When I did, he conjured up example
after example of webauthour that errornously put the same text in the alt and
title tags, which he then convinced me was near-unreadable. But try him, I
could never explain this as he can.
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