Google’s Mistake
How can we expect a generation of young coders and developers to learn what the meaning of words like “syntax”, “property”, “element” and “attribute” are, if even Google gets it wrong:
Make sure that your TITLE and ALT tags are descriptive and accurate.
(source)
Ten points for anyone who can spot the mistake there. (Why should I tell you the answers all the time? :P)
Katy said:
On 05 Jun at 9:12 pm
well “title tag” could be correct…
Jem said:
On 05 Jun at 9:14 pm
@Katy: Obviously :p That’s not what I’m talking about.
Amelie said:
On 05 Jun at 9:14 pm
lol i dnt c no mistkz :P
Political Monster said:
On 05 Jun at 9:18 pm
lol, alt ain’t no tag, you can’t use , doh!
Stephanie said:
On 05 Jun at 9:19 pm
…so maybe I don’t want to work for Google anymore.
Political Monster said:
On 05 Jun at 9:21 pm
Ooops, the comment parsed my tag, I should have used the htmlcharacters. Anyway, alt is an attribute everyone ^^
Hillarie said:
On 05 Jun at 9:30 pm
Don’t forget the tag from Outspoken Kate!!!
Jem said:
On 05 Jun at 9:32 pm
Don’t forget that my blog strips out HTML people!
Annie said:
On 05 Jun at 10:01 pm
Being a beginner at this I could possibly humiliate myself with the wrong answer, hah, but I’ll say .
Meli said:
On 05 Jun at 10:04 pm
ATTRIBUTE. *HAMMER*
Catherine said:
On 05 Jun at 10:14 pm
My first reaction to this was “why am I not surprised?”, accompanied by a roll of the eyes. I discovered a few weeks ago that Google Search’s main page most definitely fails validation – 51 errors at last check. And another cry of “attribute”.
Trisha said:
On 05 Jun at 10:35 pm
TITLE is a tag, ALT is an attribute…. Someone needs to tell Google, haha.
Jordan said:
On 05 Jun at 11:21 pm
ALT tag! ALT tag! ALT tag! ALT tag! :3 ^_^
Aaron said:
On 05 Jun at 11:58 pm
Even as a beginner a couple years back I understood alt was not a tag. This year I was going through the HTML module of our technology class form grade 9 and noticed that my brilliant teacher added in a little section about the alt tag. Made me laugh a little. No one else got it.
Mae said:
On 06 Jun at 12:21 am
lol the ever popular alt tag hehe you should see the default code in blogger ahh hideous! :(
Amanda said:
On 06 Jun at 12:35 am
…they not be tags? :P
Stephanie said:
On 06 Jun at 1:04 am
Both of them are attributes, and title is both a tag and a attribute.
Bubs said:
On 06 Jun at 1:15 am
ATTRIBUTES!!!! I even changed this in myQuilt Admin ;D
Ashley said:
On 06 Jun at 3:37 am
No ALT TAG! NO ALT TAG!! Jem taught me that. :D
Sonya said:
On 06 Jun at 6:22 am
Is it missing the word “meta”?
Sonya said:
On 06 Jun at 6:23 am
Apparently not. But title and alt are not tags… they’re attributes?
Rachael said:
On 06 Jun at 8:43 am
ATTRIBUTES, people, ATTRIBUTES! ‘title’ is confusing, because it can be both a tag and an attribute. If it’s in the (head) section of your coding, it’s gonna be a tag, and if it’s in the (body) section of your coding, it’s gonna be an attribute. ATTRIBUTE!
Julie said:
On 06 Jun at 9:52 am
I totally found the mistake: you said “what the meaning of words (words here) are”, when it should be is. Look at all of them with their alt not being a title. Pff.
Chris Allen said:
On 06 Jun at 10:18 am
Well… Title is a tag but is also an attribute within a tag, alt, I beleive is ONLY an attribute to the tag, such as the annacronym(sp?) tag or the image tag.
Sara said:
On 06 Jun at 4:17 pm
I didn’t know that ALT tags still existed in the world of coding… sad. :P
Josh(ua/y) said:
On 06 Jun at 4:43 pm
It’s the fault of Internet Explorer; it displays alt tags as tooltip thingies and these could be called ‘tags’ which has led to people incorrectly referring to alt attributes as alt tags.
Mat said:
On 06 Jun at 5:34 pm
Instead of bitching and pointing it out like everyone else..i took the initiative to let someone at google know.
Jem said:
On 06 Jun at 5:44 pm
@Josh: I don’t see how IE wrongly displaying the alt attribute makes it any more a tag? The title attribute displays a ‘tooltip’ but it’s still an attribute..
Chris Allen said:
On 06 Jun at 6:55 pm
@Mat: Well done! A very good Idea!
Stephanie said:
On 06 Jun at 8:14 pm
@Mat: LOL. So did I.
Amei said:
On 06 Jun at 9:43 pm
If you want to be super picky, you shouldn’t capitalize alt or title either. But, I agree, both are definitely attributes.
Vera said:
On 07 Jun at 4:57 am
TAGS??? What does he/she mean by TAGS?! *goes to get the kitchen knife*
Josh(ua/y) said:
On 07 Jun at 4:51 pm
Well, the ToolTips look like little tag thingies dangling from the hovered cursors, so someone could call them tags if he or she didn’t know that ‘tag’ meant something else too, and that there is already a word for tooltips. Ok, it’s not very likely, but it’s the only reason I can think of for the mass of people incorrectly calling attributes ‘tags’.
Harkey said:
On 08 Jun at 6:31 am
The moral of the story is that young coders shouldn’t use google to learn any language. A book is always superior, because the content is at least read multiple times before it is published. Obviously some bad errata, but still rather trivial.
Jessica said:
On 10 Jun at 4:14 am
Attribute! http://w3schools.org Somewhere in that site, it mentions about the alt ATTRIBUTE.