Comments on: Nice titles!

By: NSLog();

NSLog(); — Sun, 28 Sep 2003 23:03:14 +0000

Fun with CSS: Link ToolTips

Nice titles is a nifty little “trick” to override the tooltips you sometimes see in browsers with “title” attributes. Thanks to Brad Lauster I’ve got…

By: Steve Portigal

Steve Portigal — Sat, 01 Mar 2003 01:52:22 +0000

Okay, I’m dumb. We need to upload those libraries to our site, not just include that text, right?

By: Joshua Kaufman

Joshua Kaufman — Mon, 17 Feb 2003 06:04:49 +0000

Nice Titles and Patterns

Last week, Nate from Web Graphics suggested that Safari, Apple’s new Web browser, should display tooltips the same way that

By: NSLog();

NSLog(); — Sun, 16 Feb 2003 19:01:15 +0000

Fun with CSS: Link ToolTips

Nice titles is a nifty little “trick” to override the tooltips you sometimes see in browsers with “title” attributes. Thanks to Brad Lauster I’ve got them (kinda) working in Safari. David Hyatt indicates that they will work in Safari shortly as found a…

By: Erik J. Barzeski

Erik J. Barzeski — Sun, 16 Feb 2003 18:50:59 +0000

Unfortunately, scrolling screws up the position of the “tooltip” box.

By: Joshua Kaufman

Joshua Kaufman — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 21:22:02 +0000

I'm interested, but as Stuart explains it, I suspect it will be tricky.

By: Brad Lauster

Brad Lauster — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 21:12:13 +0000

Yeah – they also seem to screw up the hover property occasionally (i.e. sometimes the hover, which on my site usually highlights the link in some way, doesn’t turn off after the mouse moves off the link).

I bet I could add a 1 second delay into the Javascript, if you’re interested.

By: Joshua Kaufman

Joshua Kaufman — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 21:06:54 +0000

I might think about using them if they were delayed by about one second. Tooltips don’t appear that fast, why should nicetitles?