<div dir="ltr">Interesting Mark. <br><br>I checked the World Wide Web Consortium site and found that Firefox didn't create an extension. Read on ...<br><br>According to the World Wide Web Consortium's specifiactions for HTML 4.01 (written 1999) and HTML 5 Draft recommendations written July 2008, both state alt should be used.<br>
<br>According to <font size="1"><a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#the-img">http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#the-img</a> </font>"It is important to realize that the alternative text is a
<em>replacement</em> for the image, not a description of the image." <br>and <br>"The <code title="attr-title"><a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#title">title</a></code> attribute
represents advisory information for the element, such as would be
appropriate for a tooltip" <font size="1"><a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#title">http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#title</a> <br></font><br>So, the alt tag is used to replace an image when braille output is required or a speech synthesiser is used. So Firefox is correct and Macromedia is correct, leaving Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7, umm, not following the standards. <br>
<br>Didn't Microsoft recently announce that they would follow the standards in IE8 which is now in beta form? If that happens, how many other tags have I been incorrectly teaching? How many web pages will have to be re-written? Hmmm...<br>
<br>Joseph Papaleo<br>Ivanhoe Grammar School<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/7/25 Mark Kelly <<a href="mailto:kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au">kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
This puzzled me too, but a quick google revealed this:<br>
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<a href="http://gadgetopia.com/post/3206" target="_blank">http://gadgetopia.com/post/3206</a><br>
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"The ALT tag for images is NOT supposed to produce a little tooltip when you mouseover an image, according to the HTML spec. This is supposed to be the job of the TITLE tag.<br>
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"Firefox has never done this for ALT tags, correctly obeying the spec. This always confused me, because some images would pop a tooltip and others wouldn't. Apparently the ones that did also had a TITLE tag, unbeknowst to me.<br>
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"However, IE has always done it for the ALT tag too, which actually seems reasonable to me. I don't see the harm.<br>
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"So someone created an extention for Firefox to "fix" this problem. Not everyone was pleased..."<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
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Joseph Papaleo wrote:<br>
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Hi all,<br>
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Can someone advise me why alt tags created in html pages using DreamWeaver appear in IE, but not in Firefox? I'd like to remove this problem from their upcoming online documentation task for U4O1.<br>
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Any advice appreciated<br>
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Joseph Papaleo<br>
Ivanhoe Grammar School<br>
Plenty Campus<br>
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