Re: Title element of SVG for popup tooltip

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 5:33 AM, Thomash Lee <ifurkend@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Dear SVG developers,
>
> There is one issue with the "title" element in SVG which may be worth of
> your attention. I use title element extensively to serve as popup tooltip
> on mouse hover in the following manner:
>
> <path><title>(Description of the path object)</title></path>
>
>
> It works, at least in Mozilla Firefox, while iOS Safari apparently doesn't
> support popup tooltip yet. The problem is, for long and repetitive
> description, text of this particular element cannot be linked, so the
> following code doesn't work:
>

The spec states that user agents 'may' display the title of an element as a
tooltip.  It may be that they have decided not to adopt ambiguous behaviour
rather than that they haven't done it 'yet'.

http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG2/struct.html#DescriptionAndTitleElements

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