357701 - dependency graph tool tip ("alt") doesn't show bug status / resolution / summary in IE

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Bugzilla :: Reporting/Charting, enhancement)

Description

[bigstijn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; InfoPath.1)
Build Identifier: Bugzilla tip

The tool tip on dependency graph shows only "bug xxx", which isn't very new information.

It would be nice to have a tool tip with status, resolution, summary , like the tool tip in a comment with string "bug xxxx"

Reproducible: Always




Maybe a regression of bug 166346 ?

Comment 1

[bigstijn]

See url for the current tool tip on dependency graph .

Comment 2

[Frédéric Buclin]

This is working fine. I can read the status, resolution and bug summary.

Comment 3

[bigstijn]

Attachment: Tool tip doesn't show bug summary.

Comment 4

[bigstijn]

See attachment 243229 [details] for screenshot on windows.

Source of dependencygraph:
<area alt="bug 4496" name="bug4496" shape="rect" title="NEW - test for tool tip dependancy graph" href="http://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/show_bug.cgi?id=4496" coords="7,8,79,56">

Source of comment:
<a href="show_bug.cgi?id=4495" title="RESOLVED FIXED - test for dependancy graph tool tip">

Maybe that's an alt-problem on Internet Explorer?  I will check this with firefox .

If it's a Internet Explorer bug, is a workaround still possible, or is in that case this bug anyhow an "worksforme" ?

Comment 5

[Frédéric Buclin]

That's a bug in Internet Explorer which displays the content of the 'alt' attribute instead of the content of the 'title' attribute.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/objects.html#adef-alt indicates that the 'alt' text should be shown in place of the image *if* the image cannot be displayed. IE is known to not respect standards. Another good reason to use a Gecko-based browser.

Comment 6

[Frédéric Buclin]

It's a bug in IE, not in Bugzilla.

Comment 7

[bigstijn]

Hm.

Ok, i agree with comment 5 .
And I know we can't expect bugzilla to step around IE-problems.

Still, as many encounter this problem, it's not easy to switch your organisation in this matter.

I'll see if i can provide a patch on my own.  I would suggest to give the alt the same string value as the title .

Comment 8

[timeless]

we work around problems in browsers all the time. i absolutely expect us to work around this problem.