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

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

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.

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

(Make xkcd pun here.)

> As I keep saying, tooltips require a mouse while Emacs runs just fine
> without a mouse or graphics.  So let's just provide a way to toggle
> titles in the shr buffer, it's a tiny amount of work.  I'll do it if you
> don't feel like it--it will be off by default in any case.

Well, so far we don't have any titles (other than on images, and TAB-ing
to them will show the titles)...

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

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