[thelist] Image Tooltip on NN 4.x/Mac

Joe Crawford jcrawford at avencom.com
Tue Apr 24 16:48:34 CDT 2001


Niklaus Haldimann wrote:
> One customer absolutely wants tooltips on his cheesy icons. Yeah, I know
> ...
> 
> I haven't really bothered with tooltips until now. I tried 3 things:
> 
> <img src="img/i.gif" alt="Info" title="Info" border="0">
> <img src="img/i.gif" alt="Info" border="0">
> <img src="img/i.gif" title="Info" border="0">
> 
> The first two work like a charm in all browsers I tested. Except for -
> NN 4.x on Mac. What's the problem? Can anybody help?


Simple: Netscape 4 on the Mac does not do tooltips -- full stop.

And moreover, tooltips should belong in the "Title" tag. The ALT tag is
meant to do something else altogether.

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