Subject: bug#16537: Use the title attribute for the tooltip, rather than the alt attribute.

From: [email-masked] (Adam Sjøgren)
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 20:36:35 +0100

Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:

> Yeah.  But I don't really see any harm in using the alt text as a
> tooltip if it's there.

The "harm" is that the alt-attribute is mandatory - so you will always
get a tooltip, even on images where a tooltip is useless/unwanted.

I guess most people will have their mouse away from the images displayed
by Emacs anyway, so it probably isn't a big problem.

  Best regards,

    Adam

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