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Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 05/30/06 00:41
Sebastian Eichinger <eichinger.s@gmx.de> scripsit:
> Oh sh... yeah, i had this feeling to have forgotten something
> important. Well, the "problem" is solved now by simple using
> title="", but here is the page i meant:
>
> http://blog.plastick.org/pages/klick.html
You didn't solve the problem - you have just removed the small part of the
problem that bothered you. By the way, my browser (IE 7 beta) signals
JavaScript errors on the page. Haven't you tested the page with script error
reporting switched on?
>>> I want to hide (or deactivate) the "standard-tooltip" shown in
>>> browsers when hovering a link (or image)
>>
>> The normal answer is: Stop wanting that.
>
> Yes. No.
Yes. It's the correct answer as usual.
> Let me try to explain: I want to add more than just a few
> 'title'-description words to each link.
Stop wanting that. If your link needs a long description, change the link or
add explanatory words into the content that everyone will see (or hear or
whatever).
Your page is a striking example of the problems people create when they try
to add "mouseover explanations" to things. Your special presentation style
uses horrendously small font with very poor contrast between background and
color. It's probably almost the worst you can do and still preserve the
illusion that people can read it. (I wonder if you can even yourself read
it, or whether you just think so because you remember what you have
written.)
The real problem that you should solve is that your link texts are cryptic,
apparently in an attempt to make them look artistic and cool and enigmatic.
But they are simply a mess, written in Europanto style (an absurd mixture of
European language).
If you can produce some visual art, do so, but don't play with links. People
who build an art gallery are not supposed to make the entrance and the
doorways and the signs so cryptic that visitors don't know whether a door
leads to a men's room, a ladies' room, a room with paintings, or to the
backyard.
> And, because i like such
> things: i wanted to customize the tooltips.
Stop doing that in HTML authoring, unless you author for yourself only.
Customize your own browsing experience if you like.
>> Stop using JavaScript at least until you understand it.
>
> Why? What else then?
Start from simple and logical HTML.
> Do i have to learn Javascript befor i'm allowed
> to create this thing?
Yes. (Well, that's how things _should_ be, at least.)
> After handling some arguments, sooner or later we will end like "each
> website has to be in plain text",
Actually, for quite a many websites, it would be great improvement if they
were turned into plain text. But your strawman arguments are boring and
surely don't help you (or your visitors).
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Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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