- From: Matthew Raymond <mattraymond@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 18:05:13 -0400
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Matthew Raymond wrote: >> But the example text I have was for the tooltip, not for the pattern >>hint. The pattern hint might be "Format: #### #### #### ####" or "Enter >>in the full credit card number without any spaces." And this hint would >>need to be visible while the user it typing, or else they have to stop >>typing, take one hand completely off the keyboard and put it on the >>mouse, then hover the pointer over the control until the tooltip >>appears. Pattern hints, in legacy HTML at least, need to be text in the >>web page and not tooltips. > > You can put whatever you want in the content itself -- why would you need > an attribute for this? I don't understand. What you're describing is > already done today and works fine in existing browsers on all media. My argument isn't that |title| can't contain pattern hints. What I object to is designing HTML5 so that |title| is the only thing that can be used for pattern hints on legacy browsers. Note that I do not support the use of an attribute for pattern hints. This clearly doesn't degrade gracefully. (See <altinput>.)
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