| When I designed a web site for Oregon Desert Brine Shrimp, I made creative use of the alternate text function, especially on the price list page, as you can see from illustration to the right. But I used it to add short informative messages to quite a few of the photos displayed on the site. When I used Netscape Navigator v.4 something, it looked great, as it did with the AOL browser, which is a version of Microsoft IE, and IE, itself. However, a newer version of IE showed the text as very large and not formatted as I had intended.
To my dismay when I installed Netscape 7.1, this function no longer worked. In fact, it shows nothing at all when I move the cursor over the graphic. In the instant that the picture downloads, I can see the text (big) but as soon as the picture is compelete I can not get the text to reappear, no matter how much I wave my cursor over the picture. Recently I have installed Firefox, and I cannot see the alternate text on this browser either. My best guess is that someone, somewhere, has reasons for not wanting us to have this ability any more, although I cannot imagine what it is. I would think a lot of designers would be bellyaching about it, but I haven't heard anything about it. Am I overlooking something really stupid? |
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