68800 - add title field to image dialog (labeled "tooltip"?)

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[Kathleen :Brade]

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

Comment 1

[Kathleen :Brade]

reassign to cmanske per conversation with beppe

Comment 2

[Charles Manske]

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?)

Comment 3

[bijals (gone)]

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.

Comment 4

[rubydoo123]

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.

Comment 5

[Charles Manske]

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

Comment 6

[Charles Manske]

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?

Comment 7

[Syd Logan]

spam composer change

Comment 8

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Bugs targeted at mozilla1.0 without the mozilla1.0 keyword moved to mozilla1.0.1 
(you can query for this string to delete spam or retrieve the list of bugs I've 
moved)

Comment 9

[rubydoo123]

removing myself from the cc list

Comment 10

[Sebastian Späth]

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.

Comment 11

[Charles Manske]

Changing milestone

Comment 12

[Charles Manske]

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"

Comment 13

[robinf]

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

Comment 14

[Charles Manske]

Fix comming soon

Comment 15

[Syd Logan]

polish bug, nsbeta1+ per buffy triage

Comment 16

[Charles Manske]

Attachment: patch v1

Comment 17

[Charles Manske]

Attachment: patch v2

I forgot the DTD file in last patch

Comment 18

[Kathleen :Brade]

Comment on attachment 95490 [details] [diff] [review]
patch v2

Assuming you have tested the advanced edit dialogs for title attribute
(specifically), r=brade

Comment 19

[Joe Hewitt (gone)]

Comment on attachment 95490 [details] [diff] [review]
patch v2

sr=hewitt

Comment 20

[Charles Manske]

checked into 1.2 trunk

Comment 21

[[e-mail]]

Attachment: Appearance tab polish

Comment 22

[Kathleen :Brade]

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

r=brade

Comment 23

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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