Yeah yeah I've read the W3c spec and it's open to various methods. Agree with your rant, the safari method is a bit agricultural - it's contextual and it hides the link.
Lindsay Evans wrote:
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 of ways." http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#adef-title
Also, Opera 7 displays the title content in the status bar (if you have it visible) & in a tooltip, which (IMHO) is kinda annoying for links with title attributes as you have no way of knowing the URL for the link.
I wrote a small rant a while back on how stupid displaying things like this in the status bar is, it was mainly about displaying information relevant to menu items though - http://lindsay.f2o.org/blog/read?ObjectID:44; (yes, the semicolon is important)
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