Bubbly Tooltips
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It appears that there is more to be concerned about than what I mentioned. The author of Sweet Titles raises the same issue that I did, along with some additional comments. Doesn’t necessarily discount Bubbly Tooltips, but gives some thought to potential problems, and alternate solutions for similar effects.
Interesting. I certainly like some of the things with “Sweet Titles” (the fade-in and underlying coding, for instance), but I also—personally—much prefer how the “tooltip” does follow the mouse in Bubbly Tooltips.
Actually, it’s not that I like how it follows the mouse, it’s that I like the fact that it stays visible even if you move the mouse while still over the link. I don’t like how in Sweet Titles (and the current Nice Titles in use here) the tip disappears if you move the mouse at all.
So, once again, none of these “tricks” that I’m aware of really do everything I wish they would.
That is extremely slick. What I love is the partial transparency (which the javascript is responsible for). What I’m not sure how I feel about is that the CSS file is called from the javascript, and not the HTML. I’m sure there’s nothing wrong with that, as the style is still separate from the content, but long after the fact, when it comes time to change or modify something, that’s one more place and file you have to remember to change.
By Derek Jones on January 27, 2006 at 10:12am link