- From: Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@myrealbox.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:30:16 +1300
On Nov 27, 2006, at 2:26 PM, Matthew Raymond wrote:
>
> Alexey Feldgendler wrote:
> ...
>> In your opinion, if %Text attributes ("title", "alt") in HTML allowed
>> nested markup somehow, wouldn't the "title" attribute sufficient for
>> fulfilling the use case of captions?
>
> No, because a caption is not necessarily "advisory information"[1],
> which is what the |title| attribute is defined as containing.
> ...
As in, <html title="PG-13">? Eh, that's not really what title= is for.
title= is for "please use this for tooltips so alt= isn't ruined". :-)
A useful medium-independent description of title= might be
"Supplemental text that is relevant only when concentrating on the
element to which it applies".
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Matthew Paul Thomas
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Received on Tuesday, 28 November 2006 03:30:16 UTC