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Friday, January 07, 2005

Trivial solution; HTML & FireFox
I know this is not a universally interesting post, but I just had to share it somewhere, and the BLOG takes the beating. So if your HTML beanie isn't spinning right now, skip this post.
I'm trying to use FireFox most of the time now.
I found a small deficiency was that it did not display alt text in a little box when you hover your mouse over an image like IE does. Hover and point to the Right Good Blog link image over to the left on this page to see the effect.
I did not like this lacking, because some of my sites rely on this hover box text as a little clue or comment about the image. In one case (ct-bands.com) my image map relied totally on these boxes to see the band name to go to.
I finally found the solution, and it seems that FireFox is not wrong. The real HTML spec is for title text, not alt text to show in the box, which FireFox does. IE just extends this spec to show alt text if there is no title text entered. So if you want it compatible all the way, use both in this style:
img title="some text to show" alt="some text to show" src="http://www.domain.com/picture.jpg"

Tossed in by: R.G.B.
. . . Friday, January 07, 2005

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Trivial solution; HTML & FireFox