[Mark Phippard] > I am curious why you find them distracting. Are you using a browser > setting that makes them prominent? I never even see them unless I > hover my mouse for a while.
You don't find it distracting when you move your mouse onto some whitespace out of the way of the text you're reading, and a moment later something pops up under it? (And, the mouse being on some whitespace out of the way of the text does not imply that the tooltip will also be out of the way.) To me, popups of any sort are _always_ distracting, so to offset this, they'd better convey something truly useful. > I find them incredibly useful in constructing URL's with the anchors > when I want to send someone something. That never would have even occurred to me. The reason I moved the mouse is so I can read the text, not so I can see an anchor name. My browser won't even let me copy and paste the tooltip, the 5 seconds I get with the anchor may or may not be long enough to retype it, and in any case I can't retype it without moving my mouse focus into an editor window, causing the tooltip to disappear. What an awkward UI for that purpose. To my way of thinking, any page where it's important to be able to retrieve anchor names is also long enough to have a table of contents. (Or the contrapositive: If it's too short or simple for a table of contents, why direct the user at a particular anchor?) And the links in a TOC, unlike tooltips, _can_ be copied and pasted. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/
