Image Alt tags in Linux

[Gerald Combs]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Jason Clinton wrote:

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> Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
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> | I came across a web site that uses the "ALT" tag for images to provide
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> | information.  The image used is consistently a dollar or euro sign.
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> The 'title' tag was supposed to be used for that. Mozilla has the
> correct behavior; IE doesn't. Another unfortunate fatality in standards
> wars...

Yup.  Displaying the ALT text in a tooltip is apparently against the HTML
4 spec, but you'd think that the Mozilla team would at least provide an
option allowing it.  After digging around a little I ran across a Mozilla
XPI package that adds this functionality:

    http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/_popupalt.html.en

I just tested it on my copy of Mozilla 1.5, and it appears to work fine.