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[whatwg] Hyperlinks with |title| attribute

From: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 23:30:26 +0200
Message-ID: <E647D795-4803-4328-8FFD-E45049524F49@crissov.de>
Nicholas Shanks:
> On 5 Apr 2008, at 11:57 pm, Ian Hickson wrote:
>> On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Christoph P?per wrote:
>>>
>>> Should (or may) user agents display the content of the |title|  
>>> attribute of an |a| element in the GUI window caption (...), when  
>>> the user followed the link and the retrieved resource is in a  
>>> format that does not support specifying a title by
>>> itself (...)?
>>>
>> I do not believe this is in scope for the specification.
>
> But it does sound like a potential security issue, re-titling  
> external documents.

It would be perhaps (on a very low scale), if it was about retitling,  
but it is just about titling.
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