Posted by Steve on 11/18/07 01:31

"Sanders Kaufman" <bucky@kaufman.net> wrote in message
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> "David Pyles" <dnpyles@acousticmusic.com> wrote in message
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>> On 11/17/2007 5:46 PM, asdf wrote:
>>> "David Pyles" <dnpyles@acousticmusic.com> wrote in message
>>>> On 11/17/2007 3:52 PM, bill wrote:
>>>>> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>
>>>>>> Which works only in IE...
>>>>>>
>>>>> I only have Internet Exploder and Firefox 2.x.
>>>>> Can anyone test this in Opera and other browsers ?
>>>>>
>>>>> bill
>>>> It doesn't work on Opera.
>>>> Dave Pyles
>>>
>>> Yes it does. I have Opera 9.24 and it works for me.
>
> Has anybody found an instance in which the TITLE attribute did NOT produce
> an MS-style ToolTip?

why yes. firefox, for instance, won't treat \r\n as it should. it shows
unprintable chars in their place and fails to start a new line of text.

> I'm coming to think that this may be one of the FEW html features that
> actually works exactly the same on every setup.

you'd be wrong. however, title is required by most html elements according
from what i recall to the latest w3c standard...so, not surprising that most
browsers show at least some interaction with the tag.

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