Hi, This has been progressing as Bug 395668.
Thanks, Dave > Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:16:29 +0000 > From: martinmai1...@web.de > To: davejake...@hotmail.com > Subject: [Bug 226898] Re: Suggested Improvement for Title Text Display > > Since this is a feature request, you should file a bug about this on > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/. Please search for similar requests before > opening a new. Thanks in advance. > > ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) > Importance: Undecided => Wishlist > > ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Confirmed > > -- > Suggested Improvement for Title Text Display > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226898 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “firefox-3.0” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: firefox-3.0 > > Suggested Improvement for Title Text Display > ============================================ > > > During the transition from Firefox 2 to 3, the display of title text (as in: > <A href="URL" title="page description">) is no longer truncated, bringing > Firefox into line with Internet Explorer. This is a most welcome addition. > Thanks guys! > > The trouble is, Firefox now suffers the same problem that IE does: if the > page author puts a large amount of text in the title string, the user doesn't > have time to read it. The current title text display model works something > like this: > > 1. User moves mouse pointer over object and then holds still; > > 2. After something less than one second of no pointer motion, the title text > is displayed, wrapping if necessary; > > 3. A display timer is started; > > 4. Providing no event or pointer movement occurs, the text displays for a > maximum of five seconds; > > 5. The displayed text disappears and redisplay is disabled; > > 6. When the pointer next moves, text redisplay is enabled, subject 2 above. > > > >From the end-user perspective, this translates as: > > 1. Move pointer over object, hold still, wait for title text to appear; > > 2. Read as much as you can before the five-second timer cuts in; > > 3. If you finished reading it, you're done! > > 4. If you didn't, move pointer slightly, hold still, wait for title text to > reappear; > > 5. Quickly find where you left off reading previously and repeat as many > times as needed from step 2. > > This can be a frustrating experience, so I'd like to suggest two possible > display models by way of improvement. The first would be very simple to do, > but still only an approximation of what should occur; the second is the > proper way to do it: > > > Alternative 1 > ------------- > > Instead of displaying the title text for a fixed time period of five seconds, > display it for four seconds (say) plus some function of the title text > length. Through experimentation, the display time could roughly match the > time taken for a slow-to-average reader to read the title. For different > languages, this would be an approximation. > > >From the end-user perspective, this would translate exactly as above, but > >with greater likelihood of being able to read the title text first time > >through. > > > Alternative 2 > ------------- > > With the existing model, text display is triggered by zero pointer motion for > a fixed time period. Maintain this, but also use pointer movement as the > event trigger to vanish the text, disabling redisplay until the pointer moves > off the object (moving back over the object would re-enable display). > > >From the end-user perspective, this would translate as: > > 1. Move pointer over object, hold still, wait for title text to appear; > > 2. Read as much of the title text as you want to (ah!); > > 3. Read something else, or if the title text is obscuring something, move > the pointer slightly to make it disappear. > > The advantage of the latter is it puts the user back in control of his > browsing experience -- just as it should be -- instead of the browser making > arbitrary decisions on his behalf. Another advantage is that sometimes, > after reading the title text, you don't actually want it to reappear. This > solves that. From the user perspective, it would be simpler and rather > intuitive too. > > Of the two suggested, I would greatly prefer and recommend the latter, but > either would be an improvement over the current model and IE. > > Hope you can take this one up. > > Dave Jakeman > > ProblemType: Bug > Architecture: i386 > Date: Mon May 5 12:46:50 2008 > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04 > NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx > Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 > PackageArchitecture: i386 > ProcEnviron: > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games > LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > SHELL=/bin/bash > SourcePackage: firefox-3.0 > Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail, Messenger, Photos and more - all with the new Windows Live. 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