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Re: coding attributes for image links

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From: Peter Weil
Date: May 8, 2009 7:20AM

On May 6, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Christophe Strobbe wrote:

> Does this mean that stating that IE's behaviour is not according to
> specification is unnecessary quibbling?

It appears that the IE team has already acknowledged this behavior as
a bug:

http://robertnyman.com/2009/05/07/the-alt-attribute-is-not-for-tooltips/