I am beginning to have my own concerns about jTip. My jTips work fine in FF but in IE7 they are all shifted to the right by a fixed amount and I dont understand why or have a clue (ha ha) on how to fix it.
I am going to post on this list and see if any one has a clue and maybe a tip. (ok ok I'll stop). If you go to this page and pass the cursor over the bird Acadian Flycatcher you will see what I mean. http://www.whatbird.com/wwwroot/Components/Complete_Search_Tab.html I felt Karl's cluetip popups on his demo seemed slow to respond to me, and I did not like that I had to add another plugin to use them (dimensions). On the other hand Karl does a great job on documenting his work and is incredibly helpful so....Unless I someone bails me out I will have to switch. Mitch PS "Battling" Firebug was a poor description. I dont use debuggers so this has had a steep learning curve for me of which I am somewhere still on the lower slopes. But I am beginning to get how to use it. On Aug 20, 11:31 am, Pops <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 19, 11:52 pm, Mitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I will look into ClueTip. I like the way this coder set things up but > > he did not do a good job laying out how to use it, and compared to > > other plugin specialists here, he did not set up the plugin for > > automatic use, I had to play with before I saw how it really worked. > > Maybe ClueTip did a better job of documentation, because for me that > > is as important as the plugin itself. > > jTip is small and sweet, but I quickly ran into ergnomic issues in our > frame mode mail system layout where the top left frame has the message > listing and upon user request, they want these stupid previews when > hovering over a message link. Well, the preview box would be cut off > for links near the bottom of the frame, and we envision fasinated > users will swoop the mouse over the links to popup the previews. This > would hit the server uselessly. So I looked to changed jTip to add > smarter placement of the view and to add a delay to tthe popup. But > before I did that I (I hate changing other people's code and I had > downloaded the jTip zip that included jQuery but I didn't really know > of jQuery)), I wrote to the author about it (no response) and searched > to find outer "balloon tip" libraries. That is when I found ClueTip > and jQuery as well. That was two weeks ago and I'm having a ball with > this stuff. :-) > > ClueTip covered the two features I wanted very nicely and then some. > I agree, docs is important. I don't recall but I hink I used the > example/demo source to see how it works. > > > Oh and I am still curious how people deal with battling CSS. Firebug? > > Not sure what you mean? Battling how? > > Honestly, I found Firebug about 3 weeks ago and jQuery about 2 weeks > ago. :-) FireBug is basic debugger with traditional debugger ideas so > its quick to learn and use (for me). jQuery is an oddity :-) I > like the "jQuery Theory" but on the other hand the more I use it with > other people plugins is raising a concern. Something I put to the > side for the moment, but I am seeing more than usual cross-browser > issues. i.e, what might work great under FF doesn't under IE. > Anyway, thats a different matter. :-) > > --- > HLS
