- From: Jim Ley <jim.ley@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:52:36 +0100
On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 14:40:05 +0200, Mark Schenk <css at markschenk.com> wrote: > On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 16:51:33 +0200, fantasai > <fantasai.lists at inkedblade.net> wrote: > I have to correct myself here, as I was wrong when saying that hint and > title are two different things. The HTML 4.01 specs states: > > "title = text [CS] > This attribute offers advisory information about the element for which it > is set" > > <url: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#h-7.4.3 > > > So effectively the title attribute is the same as the Hint attribute in > XForms, so there is no need for a new attribute. Advisory information about the element, and information about how the user should interact with the element are _not_ the same. For example consider the a picture of the Mona Lisa, in an input type=image, the title is the Mona Lisa - it's not "click on a point to pick a colour". Jim.
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