On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Domas Mituzas midom.lists@gmail.com wrote:
not really. it would mean that 99.(9)% of users will get "you are not logged in" when they over their mouse above the images.
"alt" is not supposed to be used for hover text for like ten years. HTML 4.0 introduced the "title" attribute for this purpose:
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/struct/global.html#title
Firefox, Opera, and other reasonable and remotely recent browsers don't display the alt attribute as a tooltip under any circumstances. IE, of course, does, but that can be easily circumvented by adding a title attribute, which overrides the alt attribute in any version of IE more recent than the Neolithic. In particular, an empty title attribute causes it to display no popup. Alternatively, an informative title attribute could be added for its hover text.
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 3:31 AM, DanTMan dan_the_man@telus.net wrote:
And it wouldn't show up for sane browsers like FF which use the title="" instead of alt="" to display when no images are in the page. If you did include a title in addition to that, then 100% of users would get that false information on hover.
The point is that you would *not* put the information on hover, only as alt text.