- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 15:56:23 +0300
- To: whatwg <whatwg@whatwg.org>
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com> wrote: > When this was last discussed in the HTML WG (January 2012) I opened a bug > (MOBILE-275) for Opera Mobile to expose the title attribute in our > long-click menu, arguing that one could not enjoy XKCD without it. I meant > to report back to the HTML WG but forgot, so here it is. Unfortunately, the > bug was rejected... quoting the project management: > > "Sure it is nice to have, but noone else has it so we will not put our > effort into this" Firefox for Android (at least on the Nightly channel) displays the content of the title attribute on XKCD comics (up to a length limit which can often be too limiting) upon tap and hold: http://hsivonen.iki.fi/screen/xkcd-firefox-for-android.png Not to suggest that XKCD's title usage is OK but just to correct the "noone else" bit. > it seems unwise to recommend using the title attribute to convey important information. Indeed. In addition to image considerations, I think http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#footnotes is bad advice. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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