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  Re: Linked POV-museum page is up and a java question  
From: David Fontaine
Date: 29 Jan 2000 15:37:24
Message: <38934F60.5A5312BE@faricy.net>
> Aha! I found the problem!
>
> You've fixed it by now, but I'll post this for others to know.
>
> The HTML specs say that you need to have an ALT attribute on all AREA tags in the
> imagemap. Any validator will show this as a problem. If you follow the practice
> of cleaning up all validation errors, you'll be saved. Netscape looks for the
> ALT text and displays that in the status bar when you move around.
>
> So for anyone out there doing an image map, remember to always include those ALT
> attributes.

What's a validator? I originally had all the ALT attribute on all of them but it did
*not* show up *anywhere* in Netscape. I have changed the ALT attrib.s to onMouseOver,
that is why it works now.

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