What are you doing, firefox?!

[Peegee]

The thing is Firefox has classically been using the title attribute to show tooltips, while IE has used alt. Neither is completely semantically correct to use as tooltips but title is still miles better than alt, which is supposed to be a text to describe the image's content to act as a replacement for the image to browsers that do not display images, screen readers and such tools, or if the image does not load.

[/web design nerd]

Exactly. Nobody should see alt text.


Let's test something. This following image has an alt text of 'cl_out' and a title of 'clout's smilie':



so it seems like firefox shows title text if it exists, and alt text if it doesn't? This only has alt text:



ugh, this sucks.