kpreid comments on Memetic Tribalism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: kpreid 14 February 2013 04:26:17AM 4 points [-]

Because it really is alt text, which is properly displayed as an alternative to the image when it is unavailable.

Microsoft Internet Explorer has the particular behavior of displaying the alt attribute as a tooltip, but most other browsers do not do this.

Comment author: [deleted] 14 February 2013 04:28:29AM 2 points [-]

Is the tooltip ![alt text](url "tooltip"), then? Or does markdown not do it?

Comment author: CronoDAS 14 February 2013 10:47:41PM 1 point [-]

Ah, that worked! Thanks!

Comment author: gwern 14 February 2013 04:38:18AM 0 points [-]

If that's not the tooltip, I've been terribly mistaken for a while.