Bug in Netscape 7.0?

ALT text not displayed

[vibgyor79]

Just downloaded Netscape 7.0 to check my website and looks like I discovered a bug. Netscape 7.0 does not seem to display image alternate text at all.

Is this old news? Has this been discussed before?

Netscape 7.0 download - [channels.netscape.com...]

Other than this minor glitch, Netscape 7.0 is quite good. Has all the features of Opera (tabbed windows et al) and is quite fast without the "Modern" skin.

[NameNick]

Is this old news? Has this been discussed before?

Yepp: [webmasterworld.com...]

Greetings NN

[vibgyor79]

Strange.. When Netscape 4.7 can display the ALT text sliding "tooltip", why not Netscape 7.0?

Why remove the "feature"?

[tedster]

Alt attributes are intended for assistive technologies - speech browsers - and text-only browsers. They're an "alt"-ernate for people who aren't seeing the image. The W3C recommendation is that tool-tips display the title attribute, which is still rather uncommon on today's web.

So, Netscape is now lined up.

[starway]

ALT attribute is not supposed to be presented at a hint when you mouseover an image. ATL is designed to show text description for images when image is not seen (not loaded or graphics are turned off). Only this and nothing more.
It was done as tooltip in NN4.x and all IE versions, but it is against W3C recommendations. Also, as far I know it's Windows-only behaviour.

The right way is to show a hint for TITLE attribute. It is applicable to almost any page element (links, text blocks, even form elements). It is done according the W3C rules in Opera 5 (improved in Opera 6) and all Gecko-based browsers. You see hints there for TITLE and does not see them for ATL.