- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 07:03:07 +0000 (GMT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> *I had not realised that tooltip onmouseover is not a w3c standard for > visual browsers, though was aware that opera behaved somewhat Tooltips are not a W3C standard. They just happen to be how Microsoft chose to implement alt attributes initially, and then title, using an existing user interface concept, designed for a very different purpose for alt and for a slightly different one for title. Most commercial designers seem to think that alt means tooltip, rather than alternative text. For them, though a tooltip tends to be be an instruction, rather than simply an explanation, as title should be.
Received on Tuesday, 21 January 2003 02:03:44 UTC