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From: Detlev Fischer
Date: May 3, 2016 1:40AM

Weird - IE11 (11.0.9600.17842) does display title, but only on links (incl. linked images)

There is an offset of about a second before it appears which means you can easily miss it when tabbing through several links. The 'tooltip' does not scale along with browser zoom. And it only lasts for about 5 secs and then fades. Oh, and in some cases (depending on the position of the element and the page's scroll state), it is actually displayed outside the browser window far below the element - I guess this is a bug.
I have checked this on an alt and title test page that I have put together recently: http://www.3needs.org/en/testing/code/alt+title-test.html

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Patrick H. Lauke schrieb am 02.05.2016 17:25:

> On 02/05/2016 16:15, Jonathan Avila wrote:
>>> For what it's worth, both IE11 and Edge do this now by default.
>>
>> IE 11 does not do this for me by default. That is the tooltip does not appear
>> when I tab to the link.
>
> I've had a look, and can't find any special settings that I may have
> enabled in IE11's settings. But it does work for me (in Windows 10 at
> least, and from memory in Windows 8.1 too)
>
> P
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