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Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 12:12 pm
by m3rajk
Gen-ik wrote:Yes it would be fantastic if all browsers worked in the same way but the only way that will happen is if one company created it, and with the current laws in place that will never happen. Another option would be for someone to create a group of people to come up with proper standards that ALL browsers had to stick with in order to be released to the public... but that won't happen either.

Take cars for example, they all need to be built to minimum standards but they all look different and handle different.
the first, that's been tried... M$ was told to stop. the second? that's also been tried. i refer to it as the w3c (world wide web consortium)

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 1:47 pm
by m3mn0n
Gen-ik wrote:IE, NS, Mozilla, whatever......... if you coded to standards in the first place you wouldn't have had the problem.
Like I said, DW added the opposite slash since it was developed locally. I didn't code outside of standards. I always try to make sure my sites look good in all browsers out there, that's why I have 8 different ones installed on my computer. :)

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 2:01 pm
by scorphus
Sami wrote:I always try to make sure my sites look good in all browsers out there, that's why I have 8 different ones installed on my computer. :)
I tend to work that way too! Nice to know I'm not the only one :) ...

By the way, you said you're using the alt attribute in your <img> tags (i.e. alt="User Offline"). It seems that you are using it to get that information to be displayed on a hint by the browser.

Mozilla (and other W3C compilant browsers) will not show the alt attribute unless the image is not accessible. And this is what the alt attribute is about (alt from alternate, a text that could replace the image).

To use this effect you must specify the title attribute. And it works with almost every HTML tag. For example:

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<a href="http://www.php.net" title="powered by PHP">PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor</a>
When the user places the mouse over the link, the browser displays the hint "powered by PHP".

Cheers,
Sco.