On Nov 27, 2006, at 2:26 PM, Matthew Raymond wrote:
Alexey Feldgendler wrote: ...In your opinion, if %Text attributes ("title", "alt") in HTML allowed nested markup somehow, wouldn't the "title" attribute sufficient for fulfilling the use case of captions?No, because a caption is not necessarily "advisory information"[1], which is what the |title| attribute is defined as containing. ...
As in, <html title="PG-13">? Eh, that's not really what title= is for. title= is for "please use this for tooltips so alt= isn't ruined". :-)
A useful medium-independent description of title= might be "Supplemental text that is relevant only when concentrating on the element to which it applies".
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