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In a way I understand the ALT tag/tooltip business - I don't think the HTML specifications have _EVER_ stated that ALT tags should be used as mouseover tooltips
I would inverse the statement: the HTML specifications have _NEVER_ stated that ALT tags should be NOT used as mouseover tooltips. That's the truth.

Also from Netscape 4.x until IE 5.x, 6.x, they supported ALT tag display as tooltip. This was as long as 6-7 years. It IS a TRADITIONAL feature, what should be supported at least in Quirks mode of Mozilla.
Also the good example comes right from your last post. There is a pirate image, with ALT="Pirate". I would want to get info about the image. The ALT tag provides a short text description of the image so I want to read as tooltip.

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1) we have both ALT & TITLE attribs, text is different - we display TITLE as tooltip, of course
2) we have both ALT & TITLE attribs, text is same - we should display TITLE as tooltip. But since ALT is always required, it is unnecessary to have added the TITLE with same text again. We can just leave it away. It would just make the page longer without any good reason! Therefore if we have only ALT attrib, we should display it as tooltip.
3) we have only TITLE attrib - we display TITLE as tooltip, of course
4) we have only ALT attrib - we should display ALT as tooltip, because of reason described in point 2)

Anyway, I don't think, that I have to convince anybody here about the ALT attrib subject, so better I move back this discussion to Mozilla project... So if you don't aggree with my reasons, just ignore my words.

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I'll add it to a list to look into, because being able to use the buttons as in IE would be very convenient. I hate editing a post, and meaning to insert a smilie from the left, but having it added at the end.
Even would be better to have the Smilies, Markup tags, copied using "Copy Link location", to avoid the need to go to end of post, comparing to current solution which needs to go to end of post, and cut & move to correct place...

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