157158 - Alternate text is not displayed when mouse points on graphics

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 67093

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Andi Voss]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
BuildID:    2002053012

Hi all,

I just found that the mouse pointer will not trigger the display of alternative
text for graphics (IE does). To check it out have a look on the webpage
http://www.wetteronline.de//cgi-bin/regframe?3&LANG=de&PLZ=80637&PLZN=M%FCnchen&PRG=citybild
and point on the weather symbols. After a short while a textual representation
of the weather symbol sould appear - but it does not.

Thanks

Andy

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  The alternative text should appear on top.

Comment 1

[Philip White]

No, if I am not mistaken, the "alt" parameter of the <img> tag should only
appear if the image could not be loaded.
Hover text should be set by the "title" parameter.

Here's what w3.org has to say about the use of "alt":
For user agents that cannot display images, forms, or applets, this attribute
specifies alternate text. The language of the alternate text is specified by the
lang attribute.

Comment 2

[Philip White]

And I was right.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 67093 ***