- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 21:54:42 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Matthew Raymond wrote: > > There is a certain presumption that the author doesn't want to use > |title| for any other purpose than providing input hints. This is > potentially erroneous. For instance, the |title| may describe the > purpose of the input rather than the input pattern. If someone is > inputting a credit card number, it may be to hold a reservation rather > than make payment, and the author may wish to communicate that via a > tooltip. By making the |title| the semantic method of providing pattern > hints, you block the web author from using tooltips for any other > purpose, and that's even assuming the user agent won't treat |title| as > a special case when applied to form controls. I'd agree this was a problem, if authors ever used title="" in the first place. But in this case that's fine. title="Your credit card number. This is used for reserving your flight only." is perfect conformant and good. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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