235147 - Both in Firebird and now Firefox - alt text is not displayed

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 25537

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Roger Lee]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

No alternative text strings are being shown for any PC Windows version of
Mozilla that I have seen Firebird / Firefox etc. It would be of use to be able
to display this text somewhere when mouseover is encountered.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.<img source="drinks.gif" alt="Everyone takes a well earner rest down the pub">
2.move mouse over picture
3.wait .... and wait .... and wait

Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
Either displayed the alt text as a floating bar for a few seconds over the
picture or maybe even in the lower ("Done") status bar. Or somewhere.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

The standard way is to use TITLE, not ALT.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 25537 ***

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

verified.