On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Steven Faulkner wrote: > > while reviewing parts of the HTML5 spec, I have noticed that the title > attribute is used many times on various elements , but the title > attribute values are not phrases or sentences, usually they are a > combination dash seperated abbreviations and words. Also quite often > when used on a link they are a copy of the link text. This use does not > seem to be conforming and while it dsoesn't bother me it may well cause > undue cognitive noise for users who are exposed to the title attribute > content. Yeah, this is a temporary situation. Once the W3C allow us to use HTML5 on the /TR/ page, I'll change this to a data-* attribute. Using the title="" attribute is a hack for generating the cross-references. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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