David Fontaine wrote:

> > I agree! I often take a look at the status bar when the mouse is over the
> > link to see where the link leads to. If the link is an image for example
> > (like in your gallery), I like to see if the linked object is a HTML page
> > that contains the image, or if it is the image directly. That sort of stuff.
> > And I just hate it if I can't see this information, because the page chooses
> > to overwrite the statusbar with some own information.
>
> This is the only way I see to do it though.
>
> > I agree with Jon's other post: Use the ALT-attribute of the link tag for
> > your information. Then the user will see your information in a small
> > tool-tip bubble while the mouse pointer rests over the link.
>
> It doesn't work in Netscape with image maps. That was the whole problem in the
> first place.
>

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.

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But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.

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