[pmwiki-users] 'title' attribute of an HTML link

[Jean DEMARTINI]

Waylan Limberg a écrit :

>On 1/11/06, Jean DEMARTINI <jean.d.demartini at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
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>>Patrick,
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>>The propose syntax is sexy. Two comments:
>>- to double-bracket is not an annoying restriction (at least for me it
>>is not a restriction at all)
>>- having an empty title in a link does not pose any problem (as far as I
>>remember my long experience of Web design) even with old browsers. The
>>only issue I can imagine is to get an empty bubble and it is not the
>>case with recent browsers supporting bubbles (less than 5 years).
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>I concur. If only we could then use:
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>       [[some page "+"]]
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That's a great idea.

>to generate a 'title' which uses the page's 'title'.  Huh? ;-)
>Assuming SomePage contains:
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>       (:title Some cool page:)
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>then the above link would generate the following html (only relevant
>parts shown for clarity):
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>       <a href='SomePage' title="Some cool page">some page</a>
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>But perhaps that is wishful thinking.
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Full aggreement.

>On 1/11/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
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>>Similarly, I think I might strip the space between a url and
>>its title, thus
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>Yeah, stripping white space at either end (of the url) should be
>desired behavior IMHO as long as any whitespace within is left alone -
>really easy with php's trim() function.
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>>Does anyone know if there's an issue with creating empty title=
>>attributes in links?  In other words, do browsers have an issue
>>with something like:
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>>    <a href='...' title=''>Here is a link</a>
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>Non that I am aware of. I believe I've even used links like that in
>mock-ups before with no ill effects. However, what effect does this
>have on html validation?
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>As an aside, perhaps all internal links could default to use
>$Titlespaced for the title attribute unless otherwise specified. Of
>course, that would default to $Namespaced (or is it $Name??) when no
>page title is given. Then every internal link would always have a
>title attribute and the blank title issue would be irrelevant. Then
>again, it occurs to me that maybe you need to work out those issues
>with the scope of page titles first. And it's possable that some would
>be resistant to having a title attribute in every link (although I
>have no idea why).
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>Waylan Limberg
>waylan at gmail.com
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To default 'title' by  $Titlespaced seems to solve all the issues.

Great,
JDem