Re: shr - span elements with title attribute, tooltip?

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:04:00 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote: 

LMI> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> ...you can't possibly argue that it makes sense for the user to hover
>> over every image hoping it has a tooltip?  That works for XKCD because
>> the users have been trained by now to play that joke, but not generally.

LMI> I think the idea is that people will hover over images that they don't
LMI> understand.  :-)

They can't hover without a mouse.  I keep saying that and it's the aorta
of the problem.  The vena cava, OTOH, is that you expect users to TAB to
each image in order to possibly discover its tooltip.  Do you have to
TAB in dired to see file sizes and permissions?

LMI> I'm not sure "title" on non-image elements is relevant to shr.  Just
LMI> like shr doesn't implement <form>, title on non-image elements may be
LMI> outside its domain.

OK, let's improve titled images then.  I don't feel strongly about
titled elements in general, although Adam and maybe others want them
rendered.

Ted