- From: Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:26:49 +0200
- To: whatwg <whatwg@whatwg.org>, "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi>
On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:56:23 +0200, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote: > 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. Thanks for pointing this out, either we did poor research or this is a new feature. In any case, I'll forward this information to our internal bug. Opera's context menus are a bit smaller than that, so I don't think adding a few paragraphs of text at the top of them would work. >> 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. Yeah, that looks like a pretty bad idea, even for sighted users on desktop browsers, unless you also add span[title] { border-bottom: 1px dotted black; } or similar to your CSS to make it more discoverable. Removing that advice seems like a good idea. -- Philip Jägenstedt Core Developer Opera Software
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