Deprecating xlink:title

• From: Brian Birtles <bbirtles@mozilla.com>
• Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 11:27:46 +0900
• To: 'www-svg' <www-svg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <55306FA2.7080703@mozilla.com>

Hi,

In deprecating xlink:href, I also deprecated xlink:title suggesting 
authors use child title elements instead.[1]

Is this right? HTML makes title (i.e. without the namespace) a global 
attribute[2] with roughly the same meaning as we previously described 
for xlink:title although presumably xlink:title was supposed to describe 
the link specifically?

I notice our ARIA mapping is only interested in title elements.[3] So 
should we deprecate xlink:title? Should we mention title as a global 
attribute in SVG too?

Best regards,

Brian

[1] https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/linking.html#XLinkRefAttrs
[2] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#attr-title
[3] https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/struct.html#implicit-aria-semantics

Received on Friday, 17 April 2015 02:28:13 UTC