- From: Gervase Markham <gerv@mozilla.org>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:34:46 +0100
- To: Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Sander Tekelenburg wrote: > While there is a need for brevity in ALT text, it must also be remembered > that (a) there is no limit on the number of characters in a tooltip > > Do we know that for a fact to be the case in every browsing environment? Unless my memory is failing me, it wasn't true in Firefox until very recently, and so I doubt very much that it's true in every browing environment. > and (b) > that requiring user agents to ignore the part of the ALT text that exceeds > this limit, is a non-starter. Well, that's what Firefox did :-) Gerv
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