- From: Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:03:27 +1000
- To: public-html@w3.org, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:30:07AM +0200, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: [Cogent arguments omitted for brevity.] > I agree that we should say 'user agents SHOULD NOT present alt and title in > a way that makes it impossible to distinguish them'. Anything more is, I > think, overly restrictive (and we would ignore it in practice). Anything > less is avoiding the problem. And since the draft already says this: "The alt attribute does not represent advisory information. User agents must not present the contents of the alt attribute in the same way as content of the title attribute." I think we can conclude that Charles favours not changing the spec in this regard. After reading Charles' arguments I'm not sure where I stand in this discussion. The disagreement, such as it is, appears to have been narrowed to the question of whether the UA can present a tooltip by default. I tend to agree with Charles' points, unless there is strong evidence that this behaviour leads to significant abuse of @alt and there is no reasonable way to modify the UI that would counter authorial temptations to do so, short of the proposed restriction.
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