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Re: title attribute and stylesheets

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:52:12 -0700 (PDT)
To: Tantek Ã?elik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
Cc: Ernest Cline <ernestcline@mindspring.com>, "www-html@w3.org" <www-html@w3.org>, Daniel Glazman <glazou2000@aol.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.50.0304231951070.19929-100000@dhalsim.dreamhost.com>

On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Tantek [ISO-8859-1] Çelik wrote:
> On 4/23/03 5:13 PM, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Tantek [ISO-8859-1] ?lik wrote:
>>>
>>> There is another place in HTML where elements are grouped logically, and
>>> that is <input type="radio">, where elements with the same 'name' attribute
>>> (the remaining valid use of the name attribute) are considered to be part of
>>> the same radio group.
>>
>> Apart from the name of the attribute, how is that different?
>
> That's precisely the difference.  This simple improvement removes the
> overloading of the 'title' attribute which was the problem brought up in the
> first place.

Ah, right. (Sorry, I wasn't paying attention at the start of this thread.)

That does make sense, actually.

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