Re: [whatwg] Hyperlinks with |title| attribute

[Nicholas Shanks]

On 5 Apr 2008, at 11:57 pm, Ian Hickson wrote:

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Christoph Päper wrote:

supports such), when the user followed the link and the retrieved
resource is in a format that does not support specifying a title by
itself (e.g. many image formats)?

What about resources that could have a title but do not (e.g. a
non-conformant HTML document without |title| element)?

The alternatives are to display nothing or the name of the resource
("file name"), the final part of the path.

Should (or may) user agents display the content of the |title| attribute of an |a| element in the GUI window caption (if the window manager used

interoperability issue here.

I do not believe this is in scope for the specification. I don't see an

— Nicholas Shanks.

But it does sound like a potential security issue, re-titling external documents.

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