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RE: ALT tags vs TITLE tags

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From: Karl Groves
Date: Dec 2, 2003 5:07AM

It seems that you're looking at using ALT for a tooltip, which is one of the
things that MS IE does.
ALT attributes are intended to serve as alternative text, not as a tool tip,
and AFAIK all browsers support the attribute just as they should.
There is no Mac issue with ALT

-Karl