On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:56:23 +0200, Henri Sivonen <hsivo...@iki.fi> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <phil...@opera.com>
wrote:
When this was last discussed in the HTML WG (January 2012) I opened a
bug
(MOBILE-275) for Opera Mobile to expose the title attribute in our
long-click menu, arguing that one could not enjoy XKCD without it. I
meant
to report back to the HTML WG but forgot, so here it is. Unfortunately,
the
bug was rejected... quoting the project management:
"Sure it is nice to have, but noone else has it so we will not put our
effort into this"
Firefox for Android (at least on the Nightly channel) displays the
content of the title attribute on XKCD comics (up to a length limit
which can often be too limiting) upon tap and hold:
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/screen/xkcd-firefox-for-android.png
Not to suggest that XKCD's title usage is OK but just to correct the
"noone else" bit.
Thanks for pointing this out, either we did poor research or this is a new
feature. In any case, I'll forward this information to our internal bug.
Opera's context menus are a bit smaller than that, so I don't think adding
a few paragraphs of text at the top of them would work.
it seems unwise to recommend using the title attribute to convey
important information.
Indeed. In addition to image considerations, I think
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#footnotes is bad
advice.
Yeah, that looks like a pretty bad idea, even for sighted users on desktop
browsers, unless you also add span[title] { border-bottom: 1px dotted
black; } or similar to your CSS to make it more discoverable. Removing
that advice seems like a good idea.
--
Philip Jägenstedt
Core Developer
Opera Software
