But the title attribute isn't intended for people with peripheral
vision. Safari's behaviour is correct but I think convention now
renders it incorrect. Personally, I don't like messages popping up
everywhere when I move my mouse around - if it's so important it should
be obvious anyway IMHO,
Hey
But the way Safari does it means it's outside my peripheral vision
unless the link is right next to the status bar. If it's contextual then
it should be beside the link.
Opera seems to do both - but every Opera installation I've had defaults
to the status bar being off...
Good to see that
James Ellis wrote:
Anyone know if there is a reason why the title attr doesn't effect
some sort of contextual description next to the mouse (e.g a tooltip)
but plonks it in the status bar instead?
From the horses mouth:
Values of the title attribute may be rendered by user agents in a variety
