On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:00:22 +0200, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote: > i suggest providing the information in text, as content of the input's > associated label element. This is the ideal approach. But despite the value of visible metadata (and the problems that people face when asked to provide for example a date without specification of the totally inflexible (and slightly odd to someone) format required, some people don't want to have "MM/DD/YY" messing up their beautiful layout. So there does need to be an option to provide a pointer to explicit metadata somewhere out-of-line. However, rel="help" or aria-describedBy is probably better than the suggestion that the title attribute will do it, given that the title attribute is a complicated mess of expectations and assuming particular behaviour for it has proven to be problematic. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera: http://www.opera.comReceived on Wednesday, 15 April 2009 22:59:51 GMT
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