Re: [MACCAWS] Software Test Regimes

On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 03:37:44PM +0200, Mathieu <[email protected]> wrote:
> whats the point of this hack ?
> alt is not for tooltips. alt is for *alternative text*.
> you want a tooltip ? use title. in the meantime, please dont
> forget text browsers. and dont just add alt="" everywhere just to be
> valid.

The point is to hide alt text (ant tool-tips) from images that
are *not* links, therefore, *useless* to text only browsers.
I don't use it anymore, as said. But I do it in the back-end.
It does *not* validate as XHTML.
*And* I hate having to use alt text in some of the images
because, when title is missing, they *do* show as a tool-tip.
So, sometimes I leave it blank just to be valid. But, again, this
is a matter of taste. I don't see any problems with some
"non-informative/visual-effect-only/link-less" images having an
empty alt attribute so they don't show at all in text only
browsers.
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