Closed Bug 116142 Opened 24 years ago Closed 23 years ago

[RFE] tooltips for TITLE attribute crop at 88 chars (should wrap instead)

Categories

(Core :: XUL, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
XUL
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 45375
Milestone:
mozilla1.2alpha

People

(Reporter: jrgmorrison, Assigned: hewitt)

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Details

(Keywords: access, html4)

Tooltips currently have a max-width and crop their contents as a single line of text. Another browser implementation, cough, will wrap the line. This bug is an RFE to implement this same behaviour in mozilla. This bug was originally http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72687 but I didn't want to morph that bug which had various mention of window manager dependencies (which aren't the issue).
Setting to a long target, possibly WONTFIX, although some embedding customer might want this (although, then again, this is XUL, not embedded).
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla1.2
Isn't this also an accessibility issue? TITLE is useful in describing what the linked URI contains. Unfortunately, many people misuse it (title="Click here"), but it is reasonable for good titles to be longer than 95 characters. For example, Bugzilla bug links.
Multiple browser implementation, cough, wrap the line, including NS 4.x on Win. Please don't lose the distinction between regular chrome tooltips and these title attributes. Displaying these on mouse over is a serious help when browsing sites, both from an accessibility and a general usability perspective. Cropping them like this really limits their usefulness. Since I filed the original bug my browsing has been affected by it multiple times... the bugzilla bug links are just one (good) example.
Blocks: 45375
Agree with 'title attributes' being distinct from 'tooltips': though both are liked by users, truncating the web page variety at one line and 90 characters hurts the quality uses that people are making of them. It will be good to see Mozilla supporting them fully, especially as the competitors are doing so. The current bad implementation is going to be more visible as time goes on, especially with so much of Mozilla now oozing quality not memory leaks. Though the W3C's guidelines floats this: "Values of the 'title' attribute may be rendered by user agents in a variety of ways." - it kind of implies that the browser should have a go at making use of the *whole* title attribute. http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#adef-title
Keywords: access, html4
*** Bug 99007 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 114374 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This likes a dupe of bug 57599.
*** Bug 129477 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Ad 1) The summary is a bit missleading. Another IMHO more important application is <abbr title>, which has the same problem. There it is crucial to have the complete text. Ad 2) Using 0.9.8 on Win 98 SE, but different machines, one version would not display the tooltip at all, only on right-mouse-click and properties, the other works as described here. Ad 3) I don't see the difference between this bug and bug 45375. Should this not be a dupe of bug 45375? BTW: Dupes of this bug have votes, which are not transfered. Bug in Bugzilla? pi
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 45375 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Reopening. Bug 45375 is about _all_ tooltips, including ones in chrome. There are some valid UI reasons why chrome tooltips should not wrap (if only to discourage improper use of long tooltips in chrome). Those reasons do not apply to web content, however, which is what _this_ bug is about.
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
Summary: RFE: tooltips for <A TITLE> should wrap → RFE: tooltips for TITLE attribute in HTML should wrap
Keywords: nsbeta1
cc aaronl for accessibility impact.
This is not a section 508 issue. There are people using 4x magnification on an 800x600 screen that this would pose a problem for. At about 5x magnification and larger, people start to use speech or braille display output. However, this could still be an issue for some people.
Severity: normal → major
Summary: RFE: tooltips for TITLE attribute in HTML should wrap → tooltips for TITLE attribute crop at 88 chars (should wrap instead)
Keywords: regression
Nobody needs this little administrivial keyword-tweaking spam. Quit wasting people's time.
Keywords: regression
Summary: tooltips for TITLE attribute crop at 88 chars (should wrap instead) → [RFE] tooltips for TITLE attribute crop at 88 chars (should wrap instead)
nsbeta1- per Nav triage team
Keywords: nsbeta1 → nsbeta1-
I have tried this again with: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/2002011623 (Turbolinux) It happens only with the classic theme. This bug doesn't exist in the modern theme.
This bug still occurs on modern theme, Build ID: 2002032916 (0.9.9+) Windows 98.
*** Bug 134498 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Bug 45375 is not referring to _all tooltips_ but only reports the display of the "title" attribute. Comment #11 From Boris Zbarsky 2002-03-08, has an incorrect statement (Bug 45375 is about _all_ tooltips, including ones in chrome). If you read the very first line in the bug report it clearly states: When hovering the mouse over the image, the tooltip (from the TITLE Tag) does not display properly. How does that consitiute _all tooltips_ ???
This bug concerns only tooltips that result from the TITLE tag. Bug 45375 also concerns only tooltips that result from the TITLE tag. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 45375 ***
No longer blocks: 45375
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago → 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
[RFE] is deprecated in favor of severity: enhancement. They have the same meaning.
Severity: major → enhancement
verified.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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