- From: gregory j. rosmaita <oedipus@hicom.net>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 18:52:53 -0400
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
aloha, jonathan! in opera 5.11 in the Preferences (alt+p in windows) dialog, there is a Toolbars property sheet, under which you will find a grouping of 3 checkboxes with the legend "Tool tips" schematically the route is: Preferences (ALT+P) > Toolbars > Tool tips the "Tool tips" fieldset contains the following checkboxes: [ ] show tool tips for links (note: hotkey is 'l') [ ] show tool tips for buttons (note: hotkey is 'b') [ ] show tool tips for element titles (note: hotkey is 'e') a few comments: 1. if "show tool tips for links" and "show tool tips for element titles" are checked, when you mouseover a link, opera will display the title in preference to the URI; opera also uses the status bar to display element titles, so if an link does not have a title, the status line should display the URI; 2. if "show tool tips for links" is checked and "show tool tips for element titles" is unchecked, then the tooltip should display the URI of the link; the URI should also be echoed on the status line; 3. if only "show tool tips for element titles" is checked, then opera should display all element titles -- such as a title defined for a horizontal rule or the expansions provided for an acronym or abbreviation using the ACRONYM or ABBR elements -- both as tooltips and as status line messages, again OnMouseOver; i would expect the status line to display the URI of any link that doesn't contain a title; so, i'm not sure whether you can have your cake and eat it to -- that is, having the title displayed as a tooltip and the status line display the URI -- using opera as it currently functions... of course, jonathan, you know to take all of the "shoulds" and "wills" with at least a pound of salt, especially as i can't personally verify if everything actually goes according to plan when a MouseOver event fires... nor can i tell you if tooltips are generated when one tab-navigates, but i can tell you that i, at least, have not been able to get opera5 to display anything other than the URI of a link in the status line when i tab-navigate from link to link... based upon my personal experience, i would have to conclude that opera5 treats the exposition of element titles as a pointer-dependent event -- i can understand if a UA chose not to expose titles through the tooltip mechanism when the user is tab-navigating, but i don't understand why one can't designate either the status bar or -- preferably, from my perspective, in order that i could still obtain the URI from the status line -- in a specially reserved area of the user interface, which, in effect, would be a "title" bar, which could also be used to expose ALT text... that, would, in turn, i realize, lead to conflict when one encounters a graphic, for which ALT text has been defined, which is also being used as a hyperlink, if a "title" had been defined for the link... but, since JFW hasn't fixed that particular problem (despite hearing about it) for a few releases, i don't think i'd mind if opera at least allowed me to choose which bit of conditional content to expose in the case of such a collision -- the contents of the ALT defined for the graphic, or the TITLE defined for the link... gregory. PS: system info: OS: windows 2000 professional (SP2) UA: opera version: 5.11 (build: 904) ------------------------------------------------------------------ "Let me save you from drowning," said the monkey as he placed the fish into a tree. -- Hindu proverb ------------------------------------------------------------------ Gregory J. Rosmaita <oedipus@hicom.net> Camera Obscura: http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/index.html VICUG NYC: http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/vicug/index.html Read 'Em & Speak: http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/books/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------
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