- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:36:21 +0100
- To: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Cc: whatwg <whatwg@whatwg.org>, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>, Chaals McCathieNevile <w3b@chaals.com>
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote: >> The alt attribute does not represent advisory information. User agents must >> not present the contents of the alt attribute in the same way as content >> of the title attribute. [snip] > In situations where alt it not > present on an img but title is, in webkit based browsers the title > attribute content is displayed on mouse hover and is also displayed in > place of the image when images are disabled or not available. This > implementation appears to contradict the must requirement in the spec. Debatable. It's not showing @alt on hover, so their presentation is different. I think showing @alt on hover, as IE used to do, was the behavior this text was intending to discourage. That this behavior was wrong was after all a major tenet of: http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/alttext This was premised on @alt being (potentially long) equivalent text rather than being a short name for the image though. Once both @alt and @title can be used to provide what could loosely be called titling information, the rationale for presenting the two differently begins to weaken. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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