I'm not putting the Declaration of Independence in the tooltips, but the Clojure doc strings, with the same text width as they appear in the original, which is nearly 80 characters wide. Those are easily wide enough to go partially out of the browser window unless the browser takes pains not to do so, and my earlier experiments suggest they do not, or at least one of Firefox and Safari doesn't.
It may be straightforward to generate two different tooltip-enabled version of the cheatsheet: one for the standards-devout, and one for those who want something that looks visually nice today, and users can pick the one they want to use (oh, and a third that has no tooltips at all, like today's version, in case they find them too distracting). I'm not feeling especially energetic about getting browser developers to change how they implement these things. Andy On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Cedric Greevey <cgree...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Andy Fingerhut > <andy.finger...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > The tooltip could, in principle, extend beyond the browser window, but > the link would have to be at the far right edge of the window, the > text would have to be long or the pointer would have to be near the > right edge of the link, AND the browser window would have to, > bizarrely, not be maximized. > > In particular, if you fear that the tooltip would extend beyond the > screen edge so half of it wasn't displayed at all, that won't happen > -- at least, not in Firefox. > > The last time I saw it the cheat sheet's main content occupied a > vertical strip with fairly wide margins left and right. Unless you're > putting the full text of the Declaration of Independence into one of > the tooltips I don't see there being much likelihood of a problem > there. > > Furthermore, eschewing standard tooltips and using JS or something to > roll your own would likely render the tooltips inaccessible (or worse, > confusing) with screen-reader software for the visually impaired. > > -- > 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 > -- 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
