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

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> It's not difficult.  Just render "[title: content]" instead of "content"
> when the user asks to toggle the title, and give the user a way to do it
> locally or globally for the whole buffer.

It doesn't seem very useful to me.  The common use case for "title" is
to add a textual explanation for a non-textual rendering element, which
is why I've implemented it for <IMG>, and nothing else.

> Tool tips are (arguably) one of the worst UI elements you can use
> generally, as they are only intended for controls that don't have space
> for labels (e.g. toolbars).  They require fine control, *a mouse*, and
> the user to be patient while hovering above something.  There is not
> even a hint that hovering will reveal a tool tip, you just have to hope.

Yes.  Which is why people don't put "title" on random textual objects in
HTML, but virtually only on images.  :-)

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