10293 - Alternative text is not showing up on the inserted image

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P3)

Description

[marina]

Steps to reproduce:
-bring up Messenger;
-bring up New Mail Composition window;
-click on the Image icon on the toolbar;
-in the coming up dlgbox fill out Alternative text field with some text;
-insert an image, Ok dlgbox;
-get your mail in 5.0 and 4.6:
//note: alternative text is showing up in 4.6 when the cursor is on the image,
this is not the case of 5.0
expected: 4.6 behaviour
//observerd with 1999072108 M9 windows build

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

I don't know how this works - I'll leave it for Phil to figure out when he gets
back!

Comment 2

[scottputterman]

Is this even working in the browser?  I didn't think tooltips were working
anyway, so I don't know how this would show up.

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

Now that I think of it, this is probably a browser issue.

Comment 4

[lchiang]

(target milestone is M11 or M12 - add to mail beta tracking bug)

Comment 5

[Antti Näyhä]

Alt text should _not_ show up as a tooltip - legacy browsers are actually doing
this incorrectly.  See the discussion at #1358 for instance.
Marking this one resolved/invalid.

Also filed a new bug (#21141) which proposes adding an option to Composer for
adding/editing title attributes.

Comment 6

[lchiang]

marina - can you verify this if you agree? Thanks.

Comment 7

[marina]

If we don't provide Alt. text how do we deal with the issue when browser
downloads w/out images, and do we have a back compatibility with 4.x?

Comment 8

[Antti Näyhä]

Um, nobody said that we shouldn't provide alt texts.  Composer must _definitely_
be able to insert/edit 'alt' attributes; they're even required for IMG in HTML
4.0.

The reason for resolving this bug as invalid was that the alt text should not
show up as a tooltip -- it should only be shown when the image itself isn't
displayed (eg. when image loading is disabled).

Comment 9

[marina]

OK, i guess you convinced me, verifying as such.