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anyone has got idea, how to show hint string on web page?
in IE, ALT tag works fine, in FireFox it doesn't : (
in IE, ALT tag works fine, in FireFox it doesn't : (
alt tag on mouseover is not supported in FF, but title is. alt tags inanyone has got idea, how to show hint string on web page?
in IE, ALT tag works fine, in FireFox it doesn't : (
saz said:alt tag on mouseover is not supported in FF, but title is. alt tags
in FF only displays if the image does not load.
saz said:alt tag on mouseover is not supported in FF, but title is. alt tags in
FF only displays if the image does not load.
... said:anyone has got idea, how to show hint string on web page?
in IE, ALT tag works fine, in FireFox it doesn't : (
Which is what I believe the intended purpose of the ALT tag was, to
display an alternate description of the image if the image was either
missing or unavailable for text-only browsers.
In all cases (including IE) you should be using the contents of... <[email protected]> said:anyone has got idea, how to show hint string on web page?
in IE, ALT tag works fine, in FireFox it doesn't : (
Andy said:I just wish that if loading the image does happen to fail, FF showed
the alt text with some sort of "missing image" icon, not just the
plain text on its own.
Why? If the alt text really replaces the image's content,
Leif said:Why? If the alt text really replaces the image's content, why would the
visitor care whether there was an image that failed to load?
n|ck said:Leif K-Brooks wrote:
In some cases, the layout may not look right if the dimensions of the image are
not set. I believe that in FF, the image dimensions are not set if the image is
not found. It's pretty annoying - I guess you could style the dimensions if you
had to but I haven't tested that and don't know if it works.
Blinky said:FF 1.01/Linux, here: right -- the defined dimensions aren't rendered as
an empty box if image not found.
In some cases, the layout may not look right if the dimensions of the image are
not set.
Toby said:Blinky the Shark wrote:
With Opera, the defined dimensions are rendered if the image doesn't
load, but are ignored if the user has disabled images.
I don't mind that - the page is broken, the layout can break too. But
I'd like some clear feedback that the page _is_ broken (i.e. there
ought to be an image there).
It was somewhere outside Barstow when data64 said:Except that with the popular practise of blocking ads using a hosts file,
this becomes undesirable.
I don't think this is necessarily such a bad thing. Even if I don't
want ads, a small icon and any alt text (as IE does it) isn't too
offensive.
What I don't like about FF's behaviour is that's impossible for me to
tell that there _should_ have been an image there. This can make many
pages misleading.
[Added]Richard said:I think I read in the Firefox bumph somewhere that Firefox is keeping
to W3C compliancy and using ALT as it was meant to be used.
It's a good road to get back to if IE has allowed us over the years
to write in a way we shouldn't be doing. I know this full well! ;-)
As a person who used the internet in 1995 and for the sake of speed people over 14.4 or 28.8 dialup would turn off image loading. Alt tags can allow you to still use the graphic navigation buttons and so forth. I know that is wicked old school but I'm sure that is why the option still exists today.Leif K-Brooks said:Andy Dingley wrote:
> I just wish that if loading the image does happen to fail, FF showed
> the alt text with some sort of "missing image" icon, not just the
> plain text on its own.
Why? If the alt text really replaces the image's content, why would the
visitor care whether there was an image that failed to load?
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