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Re: Best practice for warning users of opening window

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From: ben morrison
Date: Aug 12, 2005 11:12AM

> Tooltips are not the same as popup windows. While it is true that you
> can replace a lot of oldschool help popups with this kind of popunders
> the implementation of this library on the above page is horrible. You
> effectively make help information reliant on JavaScript, and that is
> never a good plan. Furthermore, you make it dependent on a mouse.
> Possibly you can use this library in an unobtrusive manner, but the
> way it is advertised here I would avoid it and push it far away with a
> big stick.

A very big stick indeed :)

There are better solutions for tool-tips

http://nslog.com/archives/2003/02/16/fun_with_css_link_tooltips.php