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Truncated Tooltips in Mozilla or What You See Isn't What We Get
08:09PM CST December 15, 2003

As link logs wax ubiquitous, we're increasingly frustrated that many of you are placing your link commentary in the anchor tag's title attribute, like this:

<a href="http://example.com" title="Unbeatable link commentary here...">My Link</a>

Why? Our browser of choice -- the latest Mozilla release -- truncates long tooltip strings. We'd love to read the (not so) terse commentary that accompanies your daily links. We simply can't. Consider this: it's not a physical disability that's keeping us from your words -- it's you.