FYI the next version of Safari will in fact put title attributes as tool tips (according to Hyatt, the lead developer). However, my understanding from an accessibility point of view is that Safari and Opera are correct in their way of handling these at the moment (I think I got that from Zeldman but may have dreamt it)
On 20 Nov 2003, at 03:08, James Ellis wrote:
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:"Values of the title attribute may be rendered by user agents in a varietyAnyone 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:
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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