Thanks for the suggestions, folks. Cedric, have you tried your method before? I'm not sure, but I think it was the thing that I tried that led me to add (b) to my list of preference. I like anything that makes the development job easier, but not if it violates that preference.
Thanks, Andy On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Cedric Greevey <cgree...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Andy Fingerhut > <andy.finger...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I definitely like the tooltip idea. I like it so much that I've already > played with it a bit, looking at several web pages with instructions for > how to do it, but my knowledge of good ways to do this is zero except for > the results of those Google searches. > > > > Has anyone implemented tooltips on a web page? My preferences for a > solution are: > > > > (a) No interaction with the web server required to get the tooltip > contents, i.e. as far as the server is concerned, it is a static file web > page. Hopefully this means it has a very fast reaction time when the user > interacts with it to show or take down the tooltips. > > > > (b) Tooltips always appear within the browser window, never sometimes > partially in it and partially outside it. > > > > (c) Tooltips appear while your mouse is hovered over a link, and > disappear as soon as the mouse moves away from that link. > > > > (d) works with most current web browsers (e.g. latest Firefox, Chrome, > Safari, IE). > > > > (e) No $$ or legal encumbrances to use it. > > Without even messing around with JS, let alone AJAX or other stuff > that involves trips to the server for more data, you can give tooltips > to links and images with plain HTML: > > <a href="link URL here" title="tooltip text here">link text here</a> > <img src="image URL here" alt="tooltip text here"> > > In text-mode browsers, if anyone still uses such things, the images > will additionally show as their tooltip texts rather than just the > opaque and useless placeholder text "[IMAGE]". > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
