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RE: Best practice for warning users of opening window

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From: Conyers, Dwayne
Date: Aug 12, 2005 11:48AM

ben morrison wrote:

> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 11:53 AM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Best practice for warning users of opening
window
>
> > 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



Perhaps, and admittedly the Overlib home page doesn't demonstrate the
rich features of the library (which has been extended by other
programmers to achieve a number of augmentation, including database
connectivity).

I appreciate the link you provided -- looks like another useful tool to
add to the repertoire. However, I've been able to do some very useful
things with Overlib. But, to each their own...


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