Re: Improving alt (was handling fallback content for still images)

Sander Tekelenburg wrote:
> 	While there is a need for brevity in ALT text, it must also be remembered
> 	that (a) there is no limit on the number of characters in a tooltip
> 
> Do we know that for a fact to be the case in every browsing environment?

Unless my memory is failing me, it wasn't true in Firefox until very 
recently, and so I doubt very much that it's true in every browing 
environment.

> 	and (b)
> 	that requiring user agents to ignore the part of the ALT text that exceeds
> 	this limit, is a non-starter.

Well, that's what Firefox did :-)

Gerv