Firebird and ToolTips here at AT

[anandfan]

Firebird is not displaying all the tooltip hints here in the Forums for me. The tooptip hints are those little hints that popup as you pass the mouse pointer over active elements. Some of the hints work: profile, search, today, help, faq, home, logout. Some don't: When I open a forum topic, the reply, email, favorites, textthread hints don't appear when I move the pointer over these. Instead, I see the text "javascript: ..." at the bottom of the screen. All the hints work in IE 6.

Any ideas? I'd just like one browser that could do it all here!

(I've switched to Firebird because I am still getting incomplete page displays with IE 6. Not all the status icons to the left of forum topics list would be displayed. Lots of boxes with red X would appear. But I started a thread about that a couple of months ago in Forum Issues.)

 

[Yomicron]

This is a common problem with many web pages. The tooltip for the icon buttons is just the alt text for that image. IIRC, according to the HTML spec, the alt information should only be displayed when the image cannot load. IE ignores this and displays the alt text as a tooltip. What web developers should do is use the 'title' tag if they want information to pop up when an image is cursored over.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: Yomicron
This is a common problem with many web pages. The tooltip for the icon buttons is just the alt text for that image. IIRC, according to the HTML spec, the alt information should only be displayed when the image cannot load. IE ignores this and displays the alt text all the time. What web developers should do is use the 'title' tag if they want information to pop up when an image is cursored over.

Good information, I wasn't aware of that.

:beer:

 

[Shuxclams]

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: Yomicron
This is a common problem with many web pages. The tooltip for the icon buttons is just the alt text for that image. IIRC, according to the HTML spec, the alt information should only be displayed when the image cannot load. IE ignores this and displays the alt text all the time. What web developers should do is use the 'title' tag if they want information to pop up when an image is cursored over.

Good information, I wasn't aware of that.

:beer:

Thanks for that. I actually hate all the "help/tooltips", I am enjoying the hell outta my Firebird....










SHUX

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: Yomicron
This is a common problem with many web pages. The tooltip for the icon buttons is just the alt text for that image. IIRC, according to the HTML spec, the alt information should only be displayed when the image cannot load. IE ignores this and displays the alt text all the time. What web developers should do is use the 'title' tag if they want information to pop up when an image is cursored over.

Good information, I wasn't aware of that.

:beer:

To handle idiotically-designed sites, you can create a "bookmarklet" - add a bookmark and make this the location, and name it "fix alt tags", then put it in your personal toolbar folder. Just click it, and you will get the ALT text when hovering.

javascriptfunction(){function altToTitle(d){for(var i=0;i<d.images.length;++i)if(d.images.title==%22%22)d.images.title=d.images.alt;}altToTitle(document);for(var f=0;f<parent.frames.length;++f)altToTitle(parent.frames[f].document);})();

Note, there are some [ i ] in there that fusetalk is parsing as italics. If you try to quote my post, you should be able to see the unmunged code. Also, fusetalk capitalized the [ I ]. It has to be lowercase. Remove any stray line breaks fusetalk adds.

screenshot that might clarify

 

[anandfan]

thanks for the javascript CTho 9305. I'll give it a try.