i think ‘tooltip’ would be more appropriate
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It’s named title, because it is the title of an element. In HTML, we describe what things are, not how to display them. I do admit we didn’t always do that, but we do it now, or at least should.
This is the same reasoning why to prefer the
<em>tag over<i>. It’s more important to describe the meaning then the display. The display is handled by the browser, and can be tweaked by CSS.The fact that most browsers display
titleas a tooltip should be considered a detail. Good to know of course. But it’s not a law; alternative browsers might do different things with it. Classic cases are talking browsers and textual browsers. But an example closer to home is iphone safari. How can you have a tooltip when you don’t have a hover? I’m not sure what they do with the title attribute though.