- From: Michael <mikes@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 16:49:33 +0900
Sander Tekelenburg <tekelenb at euronet.nl>, 2006-11-01 06:10 +0100: > At 20:35 -0800 UTC, on 2006-10-31, Jonathan Worent wrote: > > > I came across an article by Jesper Tverskov titled The benefits of > >footnotes in webpages. > > (http://www.smackthemouse.com/footnotes) It may be of interest. > > IMO the problems with the title attribute he lists are in fact browser > implementation poverty, not title attribute problems. Same for his arguments > for "footnotes". Whatever browser implementation poverty there might be in handling of the title attribute, the fundamental deficiency is that basing a mechanism for displaying annotations on an attribute value limits the content of the annotations to text. Annotations that can't even contain simple character formatting are useless for anything except the simplest purposes. --Mike -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 2245 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20061101/d99bda32/attachment.bin>
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