- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 17:41:19 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Matthew Raymond wrote: > > But the example text I have was for the tooltip, not for the pattern > hint. The pattern hint might be "Format: #### #### #### ####" or "Enter > in the full credit card number without any spaces." And this hint would > need to be visible while the user it typing, or else they have to stop > typing, take one hand completely off the keyboard and put it on the > mouse, then hover the pointer over the control until the tooltip > appears. Pattern hints, in legacy HTML at least, need to be text in the > web page and not tooltips. You can put whatever you want in the content itself -- why would you need an attribute for this? I don't understand. What you're describing is already done today and works fine in existing browsers on all media. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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