Re: !title, !alt Re: Tooltips in HTML

Well, what iCab does (for mouseover) is to present something like:

title-value link to href-value in the window status - this could be done in
the same way as I proposed, by adding a bit more.

I agree that it isn't a universal solution, the universal solution is to fix
the browsers. As you pointed out, that takes a long time. I looked a bit into
Mozilla and it looks like it is not a complex programming job but requires
complex background knowledge I don't yet have. However, it should be possible
to fix that browser quite fast. I have taken this project to the evaluation
and repair tools group list, but I would suggest that without some input they
are not going to solve it by magic <sigh/> since they don't have a lot of
spare time.

The start of the thread in the ER group (in case anyone else here wants to
keep following it) is at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-er-ig/2001Jul/0047

cheers

Charles

On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:

  window.status is already used to present the link or href value
  Charles wrote
  <a href="blah" onfocus="window.status='whatever is in the alt'"

  so this might work for an individual site, but is not a great universal
  solution.

  jonathan chetwynd
  IT teacher (LDD)
  j.chetwynd@btinternet.com
  http://www.peepo.com         "The first and still the best picture directory
  on the web"


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