47575 - ALT tag tooltips not working on pictures

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 1995

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[gunther]

Mozilla doesn't display ALT tags on small pictures (the ones I tried were 16 * 
16) as a tool tip.

Comment 1

[Henrik Gemal]

Could you provide a URL?

Comment 2

[gunther]

http://kultur.aec.at/futurelinz/err.asp

Comment 3

[gunther]

The build number, btw, is 20000800309.

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

ALT isn't supposed to display tooltips. The ALT tag is for the ALTERNATIVE text
displayed when using text-based browsers, or for when an image is broken.
Use TITLE= instead, if you wish additional text to display in a tooltip.

Marking dup of bug 1995 ([RFE] metadata attributes not accessible to user)
 by way of bug 1358 ([4.xP]Tooltips do not work)

For more information, see UI discussion linked to in bug 1995.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1995 ***

Comment 5

[gschmidl]

It's just that all the other browsers do it, so it's a de-facto standard. And 
if you're implementing tooltips for TITLE anyway, where's the problem in 
displaying the ALT tag as a tooltip when there's no TITLE property?

Comment 6

[Ryan N. Freebern [:rfreebern]]

I disagree with R.K.Aa. The display of alt text as a tooltip within the browser 
has become a de facto standard among the popular browsers, and as such ought to 
be implemented in Mozilla. When a user moves his mouse over an image, he 
expects the alt text to pop-up in a tooltip. The absence of this feature in 
Mozilla means that the software isn't complying with the average user's 
expectations. As a compromise, I suggest that if an img tag has a title 
attribute, it is used as the tooltip, and otherwise, the alt attribute is used 
as the tooltip upon mouseover. The only time a tooltip should not appear upon 
mouseover is when both title and alt attributes are absent.

Comment 7

[R.K.Aa.]

You will probably find it informative to familiarize yourself with the content
of the bugs/links i referred to first. That is why I added comments at all - for
the sake of your information, not discussion.

If you wish to add comments about the matter, a more suitable place would be in
RFE bug 1995, not here. This is only a duplicate.

Comment 8

[Rann Bar-On]

ver dup