261609 - Alt text not displayed or is displayed garbled

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 25537

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[George Hall-Skank]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

When browsing to http://www.tomshardware.com, if you place the cursor over some
of the URL's you'll see that the ALT text is displayed garbled in both Firefox
and Mozilla.
When browsing to http://home.comcast.net/~thloud1, if you place your cursor over
some of the images, you'll see that the ALT text is not displayed at all for
both Firefox and Mozilla.
The ALT text is displayed correctly for both sites in IE.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Browse to http://home.comcast.net/~thloud1
2.  Place your cursor over some of the images
3.  Observe that no ALT text appears...

Actual Results:  
For Tom's Hardware, the ALT text seems to come up, but is garbled after a few
characters.  For the other site, no ALT text is visible.

Expected Results:  
The ALT text should have been displayed.

For http://home.comcast.net/~thloud1 and the markup below:

<img style="width: 639; height: 321; border: 0 solid"
src="images/route66-aleph-one.jpg" alt="The original Route 66 up and running in
Aleph One..." />

'The original Route 66 up and running in Aleph One' is displayed in IE, but not
in Mozilla or FF.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

The title (not ALT) problem with links is already a bug somewhere.

Showing ALT text in a tooltip when hovering is improper.  Duping to that bug.

In the future, please file only one issue per bug report.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22274 ***

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

wrong bug

Comment 3

[Bill Mason]

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

Comment 4

[George Hall-Skank]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Showing ALT text in a tooltip when hovering is improper.  Duping to that bug.

Uuuh...  I'm OK with that response, that "Showing ALT text in a tooltip when
hovering is improper"; where *DO* Mozilla / FF show ALT text then?

Comment 5

[George Hall-Skank]

(In reply to comment #1)
> 
> Showing ALT text in a tooltip when hovering is improper.  Duping to that bug.

Moreover, if this behavior is improper, how come ALT text is displayed (garbled)
in a tooltip on Tom's Hardware (http://www.tomshardware.com)?

Comment 6

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

ALT text is displayed whenever the image is not.

Comment 7

[Bill Mason]

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > 
> > Showing ALT text in a tooltip when hovering is improper.  Duping to that bug.
> 
> Moreover, if this behavior is improper, how come ALT text is displayed (garbled)
> in a tooltip on Tom's Hardware (http://www.tomshardware.com)?

Because as I already said in comment 1, those are TITLE attributes on the URLs
(A tags), not ALT.  There is no such thing as an ALT attribute on an A tag.  And
the issues with the TITLE attributes already have bugs filed on them.

If you're going to file bugs claiming something is wrong, you should really
understand the code first to be able to write a useful bug report.

Comment 8

[George Hall-Skank]

(In reply to comment #6)
> ALT text is displayed whenever the image is not.

Thanks David.

Comment 9

[George Hall-Skank]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Because as I already said in comment 1, those are TITLE attributes on the URLs
> (A tags), not ALT.  There is no such thing as an ALT attribute on an A tag.  
And
> the issues with the TITLE attributes already have bugs filed on them.
> If you're going to file bugs claiming something is wrong, you should really
> understand the code first to be able to write a useful bug report.

My apologies for not reading the source HTML on Tom's Hardware closely enough 
Bill.  I see what your're saying now.  Thanks for the explanation.