For accessibility, we should allow users to easily add the "title" attribute which will be displayed as a tooltip in the browser.

reassign to cmanske per conversation with beppe

Does anyone think we should do this for mozilla0.9? Should we add a new textfield for "title"? Should we do "title" instead of "Alt"? (If so, what do we do about alt?)

I don't know what the difference between an alt or a title tag is suppose to be. Not sure if we should create a new text field. Can we just enter the "alt" text in both tags (alt and title) so limited UI changes.

this is more of an accessibility issue, we need to track it as such. Maybe it's time to rethink the Advanced Properties picklists - where the title attribute would be within the dropdown.

Yes, I wish we could get someone to work on Advanced Edit dialog to make all the textfields menulists filled with appropriate values. Easy, but very tedious task. Optimistically changing milestone to 1.0

This is essentially fixed by the new Advanced Edit dialog interface (bug 71743) as noted above: The "title" attribute is now available for every HTML element as one of the "core" attributes in the popup menulist for HTML attribute Name. Is that a good enough solution?

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I do not think that making the title attribute available through the Advanced Edit dialog interface is a good enough solution. There are frequently tough discussions around the use of alt attributes as tooltip vs. the use of the proper title attribute. While the evangelists argue that alt and title are not the same thing and only 'title' is the right thing to use (because standard) for tooltips, the "do it because NS4 and IE does it"-people rightfully argue that nearly no html editor supports it easily, including mozilla composer. So if we really want to push std compliant html, we should give the title attribute the same level of accessibility as the alt attribute.

Changing milestone

Robin: We have discussed this and decided to add a new input field for the html "title" attribute. To the user, it is the text that appears in a tooltip over the image. What should the label be before the input? Choices: Title: [ ] Tooltip: [ ] Tooltip (title): [ ] Title (tooltip): [ ] Most favor just "Tooltip". Note that it will appear as "title" attribute in Advanced Edit dialog. We can have a tooltip that says "HTML Title attribute that displays as a tooltip over the image"

I agree "Tooltip" is fine, as well as your suggested tooltip for Tooltip ;-)

Fix comming soon

polish bug, nsbeta1+ per buffy triage

I forgot the DTD file in last patch

Comment on attachment 95490 [details] [diff] [review] patch v2 Assuming you have tested the advanced edit dialogs for title attribute (specifically), r=brade

Comment on attachment 95490 [details] [diff] [review] patch v2 sr=hewitt

checked into 1.2 trunk

Comment on attachment 97940 [details] [diff] [review] Appearance tab polish r=brade

yep, vrfy'd on all platforms, 2003.02.19 trunk. image dlg now has a tooltip field for the title attribute.