- From: Colin F Reynolds <colin@nospam.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 21:04:38 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
In article <Pine.GSO.4.02.9808181433250.16333-100000@shell.clark.net>, David Poehlman <poehlman@clark.net> writes >Below is a snippet of conversation I'm having with a webmaster concerning >alt tags. Is there away around the following problem while still using >alt tags or any thoughts? IMO the only way to deal with this is to pressure the browser developers to remove the ALT-as-Tooltips functionality from their offerings. Check the www-html thread "Questionable implementation of IMG ALT attribute as tooltips" from the beginning of this year, in which Foteos Macrides astutely spotted that ==== what you want is: <IMG SRC="foo.blah" ALT="alternative_string" TITLE="tooltip_string"> and broader implementation and understanding of this provision in HTML 4.0. ==== For more info, check out the rant I wrote about this, at: <URL:http://www.the-net-effect.com/bad-tooltips.html> >"There are some images on the site which do not contain alt tags. These >are usually called either bd.gif or td.gif. These are simple spacers used >for page layout and should not have alt tags. If they did, the page would >pop up with little blank squares as your mouse moved over it on browsers >like IE 4 or Navigator 4." I agree with Kynn Bartlett that one should not use "spacer" images (HTML is not a page-layout language). -- Colin Reynolds, The Net Effect (World Wide) Ltd http://www.the-net-effect.com/ Tel: +44 (0)1246 450 901 Fax: +44 (0)1246 450 902
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