Shoutbox

I thought there was something wrong with banners' codes in the website while I was translating it. Because, we were translating "Get Messenger Plus! Live for free at msgpluslive.net" text which is in banners' codes. But I wondered why we can't see this text although we put that banner in our blogs etc. Now I think I found the reason. The current codes are like:

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<a href="http://www.msgpluslive.net/" title="Get Messenger Plus! Live for free at msgpluslive.net"><img src="http://files.msgpluslive.net/banners/msgpluslive_b468_1.gif" alt="Messenger Plus! Live"/></a>

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However I think, the title and alt items' texts must be replaced, I mean it must be like this:

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<a href="http://www.msgpluslive.net/" title="Messenger Plus! Live"><img src="http://files.msgpluslive.net/banners/msgpluslive_b468_1.gif" alt="Get Messenger Plus! Live for free at msgpluslive.net"/></a>

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so that translating them has point, and people can read what that banner is for when they hover on it. Please correct it on website.

The change your suggesting is one if the image fails to load, in which case it would be very rare and even if it did have problems it wouldn't be for that long.

I don't mind it being changed but I don't see the point when it will be very rarely that the image won't load.

MattyRid, I didn't understand what you meant. In fact I understood it, but I don't think we are on the same topic. I don't know what those HTML codes are for but as far as I know that alt item is for displaying a tooltip when people hover their mouse on images etc.

So really I didn't understand how it is about image loading failures.

And I'm sorry if my bad English caused you to misunderstand my point

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Originally posted by ahmetgns
MattyRid, I didn't understand what you meant. In fact I understood it, but I don't think we are on the same topic. I don't know what those HTML codes are for but as far as I know that alt item is for displaying a tooltip when people hover their mouse on images etc.

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We are on the same topic and I did understand your post. But alt may not always be a tooltip. alt can also be used as text that is seen when an image won't load.

Like I said before I'm not saying I oppose the change, but I don't really see the point when:

1) In most cases, by the time the tooltip comes up, users have already clicked the banner
2) How often will the image not load? and sometimes all that the users see is a red cross.

Like I have said, I understood your post and suggestion, but i just can't see the point given the 2 situation I have made.

No, title is used for the tooltip.
alt is when the image fails to load, and it will therefore show a message instead of an image.

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Originally posted by Napbree
No, title is used for the tooltip.
alt is when the image fails to load, and it will therefore show a message instead of an image.

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That then makes this suggestion invalid if you ask me then....

I replaced the texts in alt and title in the banner in my space and I succeeded what I want. So alt is really displaying the tooltip. I even tried it on FrontPage and it is still like that

frontpage sucks.

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Originally posted by Napbree
frontpage sucks.

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True, but i was always under the impression that "alt" provided the tooltip, atleast thats the case when i chuck stuff together , hmm oh well

alt: for when and image is loading/screwed up, it will then display the text (no box around it for firefox (dont know about opera))

title: displays a tooltip when you hover of the element

these are not exact, but they are right