Posted by Sebastian Eichinger on 05/29/06 14:56

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>> At first: I'm sorry, my english must be horrible - but i'll try my
>> very best.
>
> Your English is just fine. What's wrong is that you didn't tell the URL
> of your page.

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


>> 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. Let me try to explain: I want to add more than just a few
'title'-description words to each link. And, because i like such things:
i wanted to customize the tooltips. So what to do? My way of thinking
was: make your own tooltips > hide the normal ones.

But any thoughts or ideas are welcome!


> Stop using JavaScript at least until you understand it.

Why? What else then? Do i have to learn Javascript befor i'm allowed to
create this thing? Should i buy "javascript for dummies", or something?
Would you feel better, then? ;)

At first i made some css-based "popup" when hovering. Simple and
effective - but then i had to realize that this method is not supported
in IE (and maybe many other browsers). The dozend walk-throughs to get
this function running on IE won't help. Most of them was like "i
actually don't know what i was doing, but i just added color:#000 and
everything works, yeah, even in IE!". One was like "Here, this method
works on _every_ version of the IE!". Well, doesn't on mine. So i
stopped typing css and looked for alternatives.

Yes, i know - javascript isn't a method which will work for all. But
what to do? If you like to discuss about functionality on _all_
browsers, to _all_ users worldwide - i'm the wrong guy to talk to.

After handling some arguments, sooner or later we will end like "each
website has to be in plain text", so that it's even acessible in
textbrowsers from 1973. But that doesn't work if you want to create
something good-looking. Blingbling'n'stuff ;)

I also created an - as i think - pretty css for my blog. Shouldn't i
have done, because of there is a "greasemonkey" out there? ;)

I just don't understand what you mean, why i shouldn't use.
Im not using each javascript-line i can find on the web, of course. But
there are really good tutorials out there, and well - now i understand
some expressions, just because of using this code-snippet. Couldn't be
this wrong, i guess.

Oh - sorry for my excessive writing! :)


Greets, have a nice day!

Seb

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