- From: Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:31:16 +0100
- To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Robert Burns writes: > On Jul 30, 2007, at 2:01 AM, Smylers wrote: > > > And having something as presentational as tooltip output being > > specified in HTML creates problems for all those user-agents which > > can't include tooltips. > > I think the term "tooltip" has two different meanings. One is > semantic ? as a tip for using a tool. The other is presentational ? > as a foreground view displayed on hover (hover view). The > presentational tooltip has problems with non-visual browsers, but the > semantic tooltip does not. You're right; I hadn't thought of that. A tooltip attribute defined as a tip for using a tool would make my objections irrelevant. Smylers
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