David Gerard wrote:
On 03/03/2008, Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Krzysztof Żelechowski wrote:
> When I want to define a paragraph-style tool-tip, I am left with the
> following choice: either make the source code unreadable by making an
> excessively long line (this is also true for URI attributes but they are
> not expected to be readable) or make the tool-tip ugly by inserting line
> breaks. (It cannot be done in an portable way because the width of the
> tool-tip window and the fount metrics at the viewer's UI are unknown).
I recommend not making paragraph-long tooltips. That's terrible user
interface.
But how will we read the asides on xkcd.com ?!
(i.e.: If people can do something, they will, and this needs to be
allowed for. ASCII art in tooltips hits my "wrong" button, but it's
out there. OTOH I've never seen a tooltip in a monospaced font.
User-agents treating all whitespace as spaces and reformatting as
nicely as they can would be fine to me. I'm sure others will come up
with real-life use cases for ridiculously long tooltips.)
The current spec doesn't forbid paragraph-style tooltips. It just
doesn't pander to them. This seems like a very good tradeoff.
/ Jonas
