Re: Amaya 8.1a and the title attribute

Hello John,

Unfortunately, it would be a rather important work to have such a mechanism in 
Amaya.
All we can do for the moment is to display the title attribute with the href 
attribute in the status bar when one click on a link.

Regards,

Laurent


> the following short test program shows that Amaya doesn't display 
> title attributes while all other browsers tested show them as tooltip
> like popup boxes.    These can be extremely useful to page readers as
> longer explanations can be offered as to where a hotlink may take them
> or  perhaps a definition of a rarely used word or term.  Consistency 
> between ways browsers render attributes and properties help both the
> author and the reader  as  one can't enforce tools other uses. 
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <head><title>Tooltip Attribute</title>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
> </head><body>
> <h1>Demo of Tooltip Usage</h1>
> <p>Hover the link and observe!</p>
> <a title="This page offers classrooms in Basic Internet skills, WebPage authoring, JavaScript, Java, and Operating Systems."
> href="http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3ll/home.htm">JR's Education Page</a>
> </body>
> </html>
> --
>  
> 
> John Russell, VE3LL@RAC.CA
> http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3ll (2 L's as in LLAMA)
> check HTML at http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/
> check CSS at http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
> check JavaScript at http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jslint.html
> 
> 
>

Received on Tuesday, 15 July 2003 09:20:49 UTC