In going with the old new saying, you sometimes remind yourself of an old new thing.
You know... the kind of thing that at one time that you know you knew but now has fleeted away thanks to the meat surrounded by your skull? And you know that you keep a blog to keep you from forgetting the very things you don't want to forget? <--- How's that for grammar? Now repeat the above five times fast :)
Well, today's example is the very reminder that HTML alt attribute tags are not honored as tooltips in all browsers. http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/faq.html#alttooltip has describes this and the original intents. Darn you Internet Explorer and your mind corruption games!? Where have all my standards gone?
Let this be a reminder to self about memory lapses and being subdued by IE's ways and even going to the extent of installing IE8 Beta 1. Guess that is you get for using beta-ware, software happens.