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inguin
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Germany
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 Posted - 11 July 2002 : 08:06:03
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Hi there!
I'm not a webmaster but rather a user of a website providing a Snitz forum. Anyway, I think there is a harmless but annoying bug in your otherwise fine software:
My favourite browser (Opera) doesn't show any tooltips for navigation images (like icon_reply_topic.gif). This is because you are providing an alt-tag, but not a title-tag. According to the W3C guidelines, alt is supposed to be displayed if images are disabled while title is supposed to be used for pop-ups. Opera works according to the guidelines and displays a tooltip only if there's a title. The fact that IE uses alt-tags for tooltips is recognized to be a bug.
As far as I know newer versions of Internet Explorer and Mozilla behave correctly. I don't have Windows, so I can't validate that.
Cheers,
Ingo
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HuwR
Forum Admin
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Posted - 11 July 2002 : 08:37:52
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for this to be a bug, you must first assume that we are using the at tags to display pop-ups rather than denote a place-holder.
So, which are we using it for?
obviously so it is not a bug, I will say we use the alt tag to debote a missing image as intended. It's not our fault if the browser than decides to display it as a tooltip
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Posted - 11 July 2002 : 10:40:54
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It is more a design discussion than a bug. But v3.3.x does not use the title tag as v3.4 will do .
Think Pink
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RichardKinser
Snitz Forums Admin
USA
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Posted - 11 July 2002 : 13:05:25
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| And in v3.4 it only requires editing 1 line of code to add a title= attribute to all images shown in the forum. I've added it and it works in all of the alternative browsers I have tried (Opera, Mozilla, Netscape). |
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inguin
Starting Member
Germany
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Posted - 11 July 2002 : 13:35:39
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for this to be a bug, you must first assume that we are using the at tags to display pop-ups rather than denote a place-holder.
So, which are we using it for?
Well, the images alone aren't very self-explanatory to unexperienced users. In my beginning phase reading the tooltips (back then I was using Netscape) was the only way for me to learn the meaning of these images, so I thought they were meant to be displayed.
Anyway, if the next version is going to use title-tags, this discussion seems to be redundant.
Cheers,
Ingo
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