Hello

I don't think empty title attributes are very reasonable.

But they help resolving a bug in IE<7. If no title-attribute is given, IE<7 displays the alt-attribute, which is really stupid.

It may be stupid (and I think so too), but it is not a bug! There is no directive inside the HTML-standard, how to handle alt-attributes content except to show it if an image could not be displayed. It is not illegal to show it's content additional(!) in a bubble.

I'm running a forum for a global audience and according to my server logs still 60% of user-agents are IE6 (or lower).

Whow 60% with IE6 or lower? To use IE6 because it is predetermined, is o.k. It is like it is. But to use an older version than 6 is ...

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