Title element's genesis (was Re: [thelist] Netscape 7 and <alt>)

Bill Mason evolt at accessibleinter.net
Sun Jun 9 17:03:02 CDT 2002


At 02:27 PM 06/09/2002, you wrote:
>I may be wrong here, but isn't TITLE a fairly NEW element?  I
>don't think it was around, or widely implemented by the browsers
>when the WAI guidelines were first written.  (Didn't the TITLE
>tag come out w/ HTML 4?  I don't remember seeing the TITLE tag in
>HTML 3.2 books...)

TITLE existed for some things, such as A tags
(http://www.w3c.org/TR/REC-html32#anchor) but not for IMG
(http://www.w3c.org/TR/REC-html32#img).

Bill Mason
Accessible Internet
evolt at accessibleinter.net
http://www.accessibleinter.net/





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