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Eric does a linklog. In for a penny, in for a dollar. The one thing that bugs me about this type of link blog with the commentary in the title attribute is that Mozilla and family cuts off the title tooltip when you hover over the link. To see the entire message I either have to view source or right click and chose “Properties”, which also has a set length and I usually have to select the text and move my mouse to get it to “scroll.” Is there a better solution?


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  • Matt — June 28, 2004 @ 11:54 pm

    And if anyone says “use Internet Explorer” I’m gonna scream. ;)

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  • Alex — June 29, 2004 @ 2:33 am

    Nope, and technically Mozilla has implemented to the spec. The spec doesn’t allow for line breaks in the title attribute either. The spec is stupid. :)

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  • Paul — June 29, 2004 @ 4:23 am

    There is an extension that does this :- Popup ALT attributes

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  • David — June 29, 2004 @ 8:55 am

    Write concisely.

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  • Geof — June 29, 2004 @ 8:56 am

    “Eliminate all unnecessary words.” :lol:

    GFM <– “Okay, so I own a copy of Strunk and White.”

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  • Eric — June 29, 2004 @ 9:16 am

    For what it’s worth, I agree with you about relying on the title attribute, but that was the least icky of the solutions I considered (and yes, I thought about doing it the photomatt.net way). Soon I’ll have a linkblog page where the captions are inline, not title values. That just wasn’t a front-burner feature.

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  • Matt — June 29, 2004 @ 9:28 am

    Paul, thanks! That looks like it’ll hit the spot.

    David and Geof, you pranksters.

    Eric, tres cool. Thanks. :)

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  • Justin — June 29, 2004 @ 6:53 pm

    #www-meyerweb-com #sideblogs a[title]:hover:after{ content: ' [' attr(title) ']'; }
    …in your userContent.css?

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  • Matt — June 29, 2004 @ 7:07 pm

    Justin, very nice!

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  • Daniel — June 29, 2004 @ 10:50 pm

    From what I’ve seen (and I can’t double-check this here and now), Firefox 0.8 may chop things off, but the newly released 0.9 doesn’t.

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  • Adam M. — July 1, 2004 @ 9:33 am

    I can confirm that Firefox 0.9 does, unfortunately, still chop titles (at least under Windows).

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  • ***Dave — July 12, 2004 @ 12:45 pm

    Ditto on that confirmation. Just noticed it (and am greatly annoyed, since I use TITLE tags as a glossary in my sidebar).

    Fortunately, 93% of my viewers can still see it just fine … :-(

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