- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 01:38:58 +0100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
On Friday, December 9, 2005, 10:37:44 PM, Ian wrote: IH> Please add some text to the specification that defines what an IH> element's title is. The current specification defines that a user can IH> use <title> elements to set the title, and that the UA can use <title> IH> elements to get the title, but does not define exactly how the title IH> is actually obtained. Would the following text suffice? The 'desc' element contains a detailed description for the container or graphics element containing it. This description should be usable as replacement content for cases when the user cannot see the rendering of the SVG element for some reason. The 'title' element contains a short title for the container or graphics element containing it. This short title provides information supplementary to the rendering of the element, but is not sufficient to replace it. These are typically text, but can be content in other markup languages (see foreign namespaces). When the current SVG document fragment is rendered as SVG on visual media, 'desc' and 'title' elements are not rendered as part of the graphics. SVG User Agents may, however, for example, display the 'title' element as a tooltip, as the pointing device moves over particular elements. Alternate presentations are possible, both visual and aural, which display the 'desc' and 'title' elements but do not display 'path' elements or other graphics elements. For deep hierarchies, and for following use element references, it is sometimes desirable to allow the user to control how deep they drill down into descriptive text. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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