[whatwg] several messages about the HTML syntax

Krzysztof Żelechowski giecrilj at stegny.2a.pl
Tue Mar 4 08:51:49 PST 2008


Dnia 03-03-2008, Pn o godzinie 20:18 +0000, David Gerard pisze:
> On 03/03/2008, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> 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 ?!

Admittedly, we cannot, at least not in Firefox.

Hm.

Chris




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