Request for help!

[DavidL]

Hi All,

Hoping I can get a quick straw poll for a competition I'm running. The idea is I have hidden a bunch of easter eggs on my website and everybody who finds an egg is encouraged to enter the draw to win one of 5 Sat Navs.

To prove they have found an egg, I have put a special code into the ALT Text of the egg image which they need to then enter in the entry page.

However I have some concerns that some browsers/computers may not show the text when you hover over or right click.

So, if you could pls tell me what your computer does vis the poll, that would be great. Oh and feel free to enter the draw too!

An example of one of the egg pages is here - http://www.privatefleet.com.au/mazda/

and if you want to enter the competition page is here - http://www.privatefleet.com.au/easter2012/

Thanks heaps

David

 

[Cooper Mills DomainLawyer]

Hi David

I have just tried to hover and right click over the egg in your sample page, using Firefox and it doesnt work

Hope that helps

Cheer
Erhan

 

[DavidL]

Thanks Erhan - it does help (although not what i was hoping for!)

 

[Rhythm]

Check DM

 

[findtim]

alt = 33467 , but thats from source code

not working for me on my windows 7 , IE9, firefox 10.0.2, PC Safari , google chrome.

not working for me on windows XP , IE 8, firefox 10.0.1

not working on my vista, IE9, firefox 10.0.1


tim

 

[Rhythm]

Check DM

 

[DavidL]

Thanks guys & thanks Rhythm - I think you've found the issue.

It's through a custom CMS so I'll have to work that out.

Thanks again all

David

 

[Rhythm]

I'd just like to add:

This is all Microsoft's fault.

 

[DavidL]

Thanks Rhythm - as usual you've nailed it!

Now i have to go through and change all these eggs!

BTW did anyone enter? Did that part of it work OK?

PS as well as a nice little competition, hoping that there may be some SEO benefit when our newsletter goes out to 90,000 people and X,XXX people across Australia search Google for our major KW and click on our result (even if it's on the 3rd page) thus delivering a really strong CTR. Here's hoping!

 

[jam]

Doesn't work in Chrome, Firefox for me, you need to add the title tag to each image title="#####" this will fix your issue.

 

[neddy]

Doesn't work in Firefox for me David.

But great idea!

 

[sp@rky13]

Best bet I think is to use a javascript tooltip on hovering over the easter egg. Or that it opens up a small window with the code when you click on it.

 

[davids]

As jam said, you need to put the code in the title attribute.

Alt is meant for something alternate to display (text) for when the image can't load, and title is meant for hovering.

Best bet is to do a combination of Alt + Title + an onClick that popups up the code... something like this:

<img width="31" height="32" src="/images/upload/Image/icons/easter_egg.gif" alt="33467" title="33467" onclick="javascript:prompt('Here is your secret code:','33467');" style="WIDTH: 21px; HEIGHT: 18px">

 

[FirstPageResults]

Thanks Rhythm - as usual you've nailed it!

Now i have to go through and change all these eggs!

BTW did anyone enter? Did that part of it work OK?

PS as well as a nice little competition, hoping that there may be some SEO benefit when our newsletter goes out to 90,000 people and X,XXX people across Australia search Google for our major KW and click on our result (even if it's on the 3rd page) thus delivering a really strong CTR. Here's hoping!

Cool, let us know how it goes