Tooltips - RE: feedback from DHTML developer

Tooltips are an implementation issue, and therefore in the purview of UA,
not PAGL. And for what it's worth, my personal view is that rather than
being a core CSS attribute it should be a preference in a UA which
implements them.

Charles McCathieNevile

On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Charles (Chuck) Oppermann wrote:
  I agree.  There needs to be a CSS attribute to control the rendering of the
  ALT and TITLE attributes.  Possible values would be:  TOOLTIP or NONE.  That
  way, the author can control the visual appearance, and if required, the user
  can override it.
  
  For purposes of accessibility, the tool tip doesn't matter - that the
  information is there and available in the object is the key (exposed by
  DHTML/DOM/MSAA whatever).  The reason the tool tip exists currently is to
  make the author more aware of the attribute and to test for it's presence
  easily.
  

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Received on Wednesday, 13 January 1999 15:16:57 UTC