- From: Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:19:31 +0100
- To: public-html@w3.org
Sander Tekelenburg writes: > Empty title attributes are author mistakes (and should be warned for > by HTML checkers). Why? For comparison, the spec currently gives empty title attributes a meaning, overriding a parent element's title attribute (with nothing): If [title] is omitted from an element, then it implies that the title attribute of the nearest ancestor with a title attribute set is also relevant to this element. ... Setting the attribute to the empty string indicates that the element has no advisory information. Are you claiming that it is always a mistake for an author to decide that a parent element's title doesn't apply but that the current element doesn't need a title? Or do you think it's wrong for title attributes to be inherited like this, and you'd rather that omitting the title attribute always indicated that no title is relevant? Smylers
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