Closed Bug 541979 Opened 14 years ago Closed 14 years ago

Duration of ALT-text display should be proportional to length of text

Categories

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 395668

People

(Reporter: cphillips, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.17) Gecko/2010010604 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.17
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.17) Gecko/2010010604 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.17

Presumably, right now the duration of alt-text display is a hard-coded constant. It would be pretty sweet if it were a simple linear function of the number of characters in the text (i.e., something like t(s) = strlen(s)*(80/3)). 

If it's possible to do this with an extension/plug-in, let me know and I'll hack it up myself and delete this bug.

Reproducible: Always




This bug is a silly and unnecessary feature-add which, you, kind developer of quality software, should only pay attention to if you find yourself otherwise bored of fixing high-priority bugs.
Fixed in Firefox 3.6 and later. Alt text is shown till you move your mouse.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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