- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 14:25:27 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
At 01:53 PM 1/13/99 -0500, Ian Jacobs wrote: > >This is, of course, different from the current tooltip mechanism >which does not involve/change the document's rendering at all. >With relative positioning, the 'visibility' property, and scripts, >you can even simulate a tooltip effect. > But the tooltip does change the document's rendering. It hides portions of the document temporarily to comment on other portions of the document. The tooltip is a move, not a display region. It is a transient behavior. This sort of a method is not in the device model of the the SCREEN display medium in CSS2 even 'though it is a cliche of the GUI screen at the present time. This illustrates how far the W3C standards are from addressing the world in which the Web actually operates. Al
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