Closed
Bug 77502
Opened 23 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
Display title attribute in the status bar
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)
SeaMonkey
UI Design
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
WONTFIX
People
(Reporter: hsivonen, Assigned: mpt)
Details
(Whiteboard: [p-icab])
I suggest the title attribute be displayable in the status bar. If there is also a href attribute to display, I suggest the title be displayed first followed a space and the href attribute in parenthesis. Text in the status bar is visible immediately--you don't have to wait for the tooltip to appear. Displaying the title attribute in the status bar and displaying it as a tooltip don't have to be mutually exclusive.
Updated•23 years ago
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QA Contact: sairuh → claudius
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Comment 1•23 years ago
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Tooltips (or help balloons) can expand in two dimensions (they can get both wider and taller), whereas the status bar cannot expand at all. Long TITLEs would easily cause the link URI to fall off the right end of the status bar completely, defeating the purpose of including the URI in the status bar in the first place. I think that's the biggest problem with this proposal.
Whiteboard: [p-icab]
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Comment 2•23 years ago
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The main point of this bug is to provide a solution to these issues: * I (and likely others) move the mouse cursor fast and don't like waiting for tooltips to pop up. The usefulness of title attributes is significatly reduced, if I can't see the title immediately when I want to. * Displaying tooltips immediately would be intrusive and annoying. Consider moving the cursor, having a link list on its path and having tooltip pop up all over the window. I think this could be done using the status bar if * The progess meter goes out of the way (bug 47909) * The component bar and the on/offline indicator can be zapped as a pref (I know some people use them, but I don't. They only make my status bar shorter.) * Smart truncation is used. The simple rules in the case of too long combined length of title and href: - If the URL contains the character '?', truncate shortly after '?' and display an ellipsis. - If the combined length is still too much, truncate the title and display an ellipsis. Also, the visibility of the href attribute is a non-issue in the case of <abbr> and <acronym>. mpt, do you have an alternative solution?
Comment 3•23 years ago
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--> UI Design for response to Henris' last inquiry.
Assignee: blake → mpt
Component: XP Apps: GUI Features → User Interface Design
QA Contact: claudius → zach
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Comment 4•23 years ago
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My alternative solution is the solution which Mozilla uses now -- tooltips. Responses to Henri's points, in order: 1. Methinks Henri is ascribing more usefulness to the title attribute than it actually has. Waiting a second for the tooltip to appear is quite reasonable, I think, for `advisory information' about an element. 2. We're not showing tooltips immediately, so the annoyance or otherwise of that behavior is moot. 3. Showing/hiding the component bar is bug 83059. 4. Putting the title of a link in the status bar would *still* result in reduced usability from shortening of the URL (for A elements) in the status bar. 5. Truncating the title in the status bar, as well as the URL (for A elements), would defeat the point of including *either* of them in the status bar.
Component: User Interface Design → XP Apps: GUI Features
I agree that the usability problems far outweigh the possible benefits. For normal users the tooltips are absolutely sufficient. If you're a power user that doesn't want to wait for the tooltips to show up why don't you use a user stylesheet doing something like that: * { content: " (" attr(title) ")"; } This will output the title of any element immediately after the element containing the title.
Summary: [RFE] Display title attribute in the status bar → Display title attribute in the status bar
Comment 6•20 years ago
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The visual disconnect created by moving the title down to the status bar reduces usability. Opera does this (at least in version 5), and it's awkward and unfamiliar. Moving the title's contents will also clutter the statusbar unecessarily. This should be WONTFIXed.
Updated•20 years ago
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Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Core → Mozilla Application Suite
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