Use The Right Bloody Attribute!

While we're on the subject on things on web pages that annoy me, another thing that really irritates me (though admittedly not as much as imbedded midis, not much can compare to the horror of that!) is use of the alt attribute in images as if it is the title attribute.  Why do so many people use the alt attribute for text they want to pop up when you mouse over an image??  THAT'S NOT THE PURPOSE OF THE ALT attribute!  The purpose of the alt attribute it to be an alternative to the image, hence the "alt" get it?  So if the image is missing for some reason, or someone is using a browser that doesn't support images (not that common now, but it used to be, and that was the original point of the alt tag) then you can at least get an idea of what's supposed to be there.  This is especially useful when an image is used at the title of a page.  Now, the TITLE attribute in an image is what's supposed to be used to make text pop up when you hover over an image.  So why don't people use that damn attribute?  Now, I know that not everybody knows everything about html, and I don't expect every web page to be perfect, especially when you're learning.  Hell, I admit I'm not very good myself.  As you can see my site is very very basic.  But, the shear number of sites I go to that use the alt attribute in place of the title attribute really drives me nuts.  I blame most of that on IE.  IE doesn't follow real HTML protocol; it makes up its own rules.  Microsoft is evil and insane, and not in a good way!  There are so many websites that don't look right in Mozilla, because Microsoft decided they wanted to make up their own crazy, nonsensical HTML, so people get confused and think that's how it's supposed to be.  *stabs Bill Gates to death with a butcher knife*  See, in IE, if there's no title tag, it will pop up the alt tag of an image, so I guess people just assume that that's how it's supposed to work.  But in a *cough* real browser, such as Mozilla, that won't work.  Only the title tag will pop up when you mouse over a picture, if there's no title tag, nothing pops up.  So when people use the alt tag for vital information, like, for adoptions, I have to right-click and look at the properties to see what the alt tag is.  And if the site has right-click disabled...Ugh!  But that's a whole nother rant.  Bottom line: The title attribute it your friend!  Use it!