45825 - Table summary attribute is being combined with tooltip on <a> elements!

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: XUL, defect, P3)

Description

[Andrew Thompson]

Steps to reproduce:

Go to http://www.w3,org
Mouse over any link in the main section of the page.

The text from the table summary attribute is being included in the tooltip for 
all links on the page!

This is indirectly linked to this bug:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45735

which is assigned to you.

I think the table summary should be shown, but it shouldn't be inherited by every 
element in the table... its just plain confusing. Its as if the title attribute 
for the <a> element was set!

This leaves the question of how to determine when to show this and when not to 
show it. The simplest algorithm would be to show the tooltip containing the 
summary only if there is no other tooltip text to show for the element under the 
mouse.

Comment 1

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

This bug is invalid. Those links in the main area do not have a TITLE element. 
All you're seeing is the TABLE SUMMARY. That is looking funny (little autoscroll 
thingys) because of some XUL problem, unrelated to this bug.

I specifically tried to avoid this problem when I wrote the tooltip code. It 
scans the content model from the pointed-to element up to the document root, and 
stops as soon as it hits any tooltippable element.

I am resolving this INVALID. If you think this is still a real bug, make a small 
simple testcase and attach it here. Make sure you're using a most recent 
build, too.

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

feel free to change the component (i just read the comments in bug 45735), in
light of bug 45735. but i'm not correct the qa contact.

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

cc'ing jrgm, since afaik tooltip bugs should go into xp toolkit/widgets...?

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

sigh. over to jrgm/xp toolkit.

Comment 5

[Andrew Thompson]

>This bug is invalid. Those links in the main area do not have a TITLE element. 
>All you're seeing is the TABLE SUMMARY. That is looking funny (little autoscroll 
>thingys) because of some XUL problem, unrelated to this bug.

I'm afraid I'm a little lost. I'm not concerned with the autoscroll arrows - 
which is why I never mentioned them (they don't seem to appear on MacOS anyway, 
though I have seen them on Windows). 

Robert, what I'm talking about is exactly what you yourself mention in your 
comment: The table summary is appearing as part of the tooltip for every link 
that happens to be inside the table.

I believe that this is a bug. It makes no sense for the table summary to appear 
when one is looking at the tooltip for an <a> link. It makes it appear that the 
summary relates to the link rather than to the table as a whole.

Look at the example I gave again: the links on the w3c homepage look silly when 
you mouse over them, because some compeltely unrelated table summary pops up in 
their tooltips.

If you're seeing the same effect as me, which it seems that you are, do you  
believe this is optimal behaviour? It makes no sense to me to have the summary 
appear in this tooltip.

Comment 6

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

The table summary appears as the *whole* tooltip wherever you hover within the 
table, link or not. It is not being "combined" with anything. That is why this 
bug is invalid.

If you don't like the table summary tooltip, add your comments to bug 45735.

Comment 7

[Antti Näyhä]

OK, this is either invalid or a dup of bug 45735, depending on your point of
view.  Marking Verified/Invalid.