- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:36:34 -0400 (EDT)
- To: <carcone@w3.org>
- cc: <ve3ll@rac.ca>, <www-amaya@w3.org>
I would prefer that approach if it is easy to do - it is what iCab and Safari do, and I find it much less intrusive than tooltips, at the same time being helpful. Cheers Chaals On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Laurent Carcone wrote: > >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 >> >> >> > > > > -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles tel: +61 409 134 136 SWAD-E http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe fax(france): +33 4 92 38 78 22 Post: 21 Mitchell street, FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia or W3C, 2004 Route des Lucioles, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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