- From: Jon Barnett <jonbarnett@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:10:37 -0500
- To: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>
- Cc: "Lachlan Hunt" <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, public-html@w3.org, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
On 7/29/07, Gregory J. Rosmaita <oedipus@hicom.net> wrote: > > lachlan wrote, quote: > > The alt attribute is only rendered as a tooltip in IE, and > > that's considered a bug for a variety of reasons. See this article. > > > > http://hixie.ch/advocacy/alt-tooltips > unquote > > i find hixie's arguments, decidedly unconvincing. In your replies here I didn't see much refutation of his arguments, just dismissal of them. The two key points I see are (2) and (8) on Hixie's list. Providing @alt as a tooltip encourages authors to only write @alt attributes that make sense as tooltips and don't make sense as alternate text for an image. A budding developer who tests primarily with MSIE may use @alt attributes in a way that would be confusing to someone who was reading it as alternate text. It also encourages authors to use the exact same text for @alt and @title, even which the two serve different purposes. Also, authors who don't want @alt to appear as a tooltip are omitting @alt altogether. Also, his (4)th point was also valid: in <a title><img alt></a> the @title text becomes invisible to IE users when it was intended as a tooltip and the @alt attribute get incorrectly used as a tooltip instead. Do you have a specific problem with any of these points instead of dismissing them? -- Jon Barnett
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