Alan Barrett wrote: > On Mon, 08 Feb 2010, Mark Phippard wrote: > > > I hoped these 'tooltips' disappear after the move, but they didn't... > > > They're so awfully distracting [...] > > Yes, they are horrid. > > > 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. > > I suppose that I also see them only when I hover my mouse for a while. > The problem is that my mouse is always in the browser window while I am > reading, and the mouse is almost always stationary. That translates > to: the mouse is almost always hovering over something in the window. [...]
I think we have consensus that we don't like the "title" attribute being applied to ordinary paragraphs (by way of the <div>). So what instead? * Just remove the title attributes. * Put the title attribute on the first heading within the <div> instead of on the <div> itself. (One div can have multiple section headings in it. Is it still useful in that case? Yes, I think so, because our section headings ought to align with our divs if we think these ids are useful.) * A very neat solution: a little "link to this section" symbol after each heading. I saw a web site that provided links to the individual section headings by popping up a little symbol (the paragraph marker symbol which looks like a P with a double-stroked vertical line) just at the end of the section heading text, only when the mouse hovered over the heading text. The symbol was a link to the full URL of that section, so it could be copied, plus a "title" attribute of some kind. That makes sending someone a link even easier than the current "title" attribute. Unfortunately I forget where I saw it. It was a site full of high-quality, structured documentation. It may have used Javascript for this effect but I don't know - maybe it's possible with a style sheet. Anyone fancy having a go at that? Or finding a site that does that, so we can copy it? - Julian
