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Subject: [OM] Re: OT - web thumbnail picture labels
From: Bernard Frangoulis <lists@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:30:11 +0100
>But you can easily move the cursor off of the picture and the tag
>disappears. It will also disappear after a short delay.

I for one find it very distracting to not be able to move my cursor over a page 
without tags flashing all over the place ;-)

> The attraction to me
>was that it is readily found (by IE users) but it doesn't clutter up a page
>like 40 titles would. GeeBee's method of black on black then using the
>select highlight seems to be the only alternative. But that isn't expected
>by most users, so it would go mostly unseen. Some type of mouse-over action
>seems to be the best choice.

I prefer to have no title/caption/description for the thumbnails, and a visible 
title (not too obtrusive) for the bigger image the thumbnail links to.

>
>The title tag doesn't act any different from ALT in the IE browser. Why use
>it?

1. Because this is not what the alt tag is for.
2. Because I don't design for IE, I design for standards, and if necessary add 
the necessary css hacks to make it all work around the various IE mishandlings 
of css (look up http://www.positioniseverything.net/ie-primer.html).

Bernard

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