@DPSsys it literally does though? it's right there in media:description

@noiob My client is not showing it hmm but I do see it in there now. I use thunderbird

@DPSsys it might put it in alt but not in title which means it'll only show up when the image doesn't load?

@clonejo @noiob Yeah that is the main reason people usually use it except very confusing pictures or ones that do not load

@DPSsys @clonejo well, the title attribute was introduced because people kept putting jokes in the hovertext

@noiob @clonejo I had no idea this existed and it is an incredibly confusing implementation. The standard here. It says to avoid using it to duplicate the alt attribute but what I see you often have no choice when you want an alt text that should also appear as a tooltip and mastodon does it what I need in the inspector. If I had written such a standard I would just have made alt text shown as a tooltip in the first place instead of this strange redundancy

@DPSsys @clonejo alt text used to be shown as the tooltip but it wasn't standardized as such

@noiob @clonejo I hope they change it so it displays title first otherwise alt on browsers so people do not need the title thing to begin with

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