[wxqc] MADIS rating

Steve steveh at softwx.com
Mon Oct 30 06:20:11 CST 2006


If you put the text that's in the img's alt tag into the img's title tag
also, then the text will show up in firefox as well.

Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick R. Sklenar [mailto:pat at sklenar.info]
> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 4:42 AM
> To: Discussion of weather data quality issues
> Subject: Re: [wxqc] MADIS rating
> 
> Victor Engel wrote:
> > My suggestion would be to make it more firefox compatible. The
> > mouseover feature doesn't work in firefox 1.0.5.7 <http://1.0.5.7> for
> > XP (at least not my copy), but it does work with Internet Explorer
> > (99% on all three, yeah!). ...
> 
> For some reason, FF (both 1.5 & 2.0) doesn't show the html Image tag's
> "Alternate Text" when you hover the cursor over an image,  I've checked
> the settings and see one to turn such behavior on either.  IE *does*
> show the "Alternate Text" when you hover over an image.  I have not seen
> ANY web page yet (in the 2+ years I've been using FF) that shows the
> "alternate text".  So I don't know that this is something Philip &
> company could possible do on their own. :(
> 
> You *can* see the test by right clicking on the image and selecting
> properties.
> 
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