Display issue for census pages and firefox
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:16 pm
Yay, I'm submitting my first bug! But, it's just cosmetic.
When viewing the results for a given server, I see bars showing how many people are level 10, level 11, etc. But the only way I can find out exactly how many people are level 10 or level 11, etc is to view source, and find the alt tag for each level. This is a real pain.
I did a little research. Using an alt tag, but not title for the image is "Case 1" (of the following 13 cases):
http://www.wac.ohio-state.edu/tutorials ... esting.htm
The report of "hover" display (at the bottom of the page) confirms that case 1 will hover the text in IE, but not in firefox.
So, which is correct? Here's a quote I found:
So, it seems logical to change these pages to use "title" instead of "alt".
When viewing the results for a given server, I see bars showing how many people are level 10, level 11, etc. But the only way I can find out exactly how many people are level 10 or level 11, etc is to view source, and find the alt tag for each level. This is a real pain.
I did a little research. Using an alt tag, but not title for the image is "Case 1" (of the following 13 cases):
http://www.wac.ohio-state.edu/tutorials ... esting.htm
The report of "hover" display (at the bottom of the page) confirms that case 1 will hover the text in IE, but not in firefox.
So, which is correct? Here's a quote I found:
From http://www.gadgetopia.com/post/3206
The ALT tag for images is NOT supposed to produce a little tooltip when you mouseover an image, according to the HTML spec. This is supposed to be the job of the TITLE tag.
Firefox has never done this for ALT tags, correctly obeying the spec. This always confused me, because some images would pop a tooltip and others wouldn?t. Apparently the ones that did also had a TITLE tag, unbeknowst to me.
So, it seems logical to change these pages to use "title" instead of "alt".