My Firefox3 does, and my IE7 does too. That's mysterious that yours 
doesn't.

Jonathan

Ross Singer wrote:
> Wait, has there actually been confirmation of this behavior?  What
> browser displays the "title" for a span?  I haven't run across this.
>
> -Ross.
>
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>   
>> Yeah, I had recently noticed indepedently, been unhappy with the way a COinS
>> "title" shows up in mouse-overs, and is reccommended to be used by screen
>> readers. Oops.
>>
>> But I think it's still worth putting in, until we come up with something
>> better. COinS is one of the few useful micro-standards that actually is in
>> use in our infrastructure.
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> Ed Summers wrote:
>>     
>>> One thing to keep in mind when looking at unAPI, COinS and
>>> Microformats in general is:
>>>
>>>
>>>  http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/06/removing_microformats_from_bbc.shtml
>>>
>>> //Ed
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> --
>> Jonathan Rochkind
>> Digital Services Software Engineer
>> The Sheridan Libraries
>> Johns Hopkins University
>> 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu
>>
>>     
>
>   

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Jonathan Rochkind
Digital Services Software Engineer
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
410.516.8886 
rochkind (at) jhu.edu