- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 10:07:16 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 28 May 2005, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > > it would be helpful to have a way of including extra help, which may be > provided by a popup dialogue, mouseover, etc. The HTML4 "title" attribute provides this. At one point we considered having a second attribute with a URI, help="", similar to the XForms equivalent, for more detailed context-sensitive help. However, we got feedback from implementors and Web designers saying it wouldn't be that useful since it was not discoverable, and so it was removed. In HTML5 it is likely that a rel="" value for the <a> element will be introduced which could be used to provide context-sensitive help while still having discoverability for the common case: the link would be visible in the markup, and the UA would be able to determine the closest matching such link (according to a given algorithm) when looking for help. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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