On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Ethan Jewett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Richard Hirsch <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > What I'd like to do is use JQuery tool tips to display the help. I just > > finished converting the action page and just deleted the help. > > That sounds just about perfect! > > > Good luck. Do you have suggestion of how to display a long url? Maybe > with > > a mouse-over that displays the fulltext. > > I think for starters we could drop the # of clicks and get away from a > table-based model to a list-based model in the html. That helps > compact things a bit and gives us more ability to use CSS for managing > text display. The next step is to force wrapping, which to the best of > my knowledge is not really possible in CSS2. Fortunately CSS3 has the > "word-wrap:break-word" style, which does exactly what we want. > > I've attached a mock-up done using CSS3 using this approach. What do you > think? > Email it to me directly, since the esme-dev mailing deamon usually kills attachments. Or attach it to JIRA-100 item. > As a last resort, if we can't find a way to extend this to non-CSS3 > browsers, we could probably do some fancy JS or something to insert > spaces into the text representation of the link, allowing it to wrap. > > > > > What about creating dialogs but not modal dialogs. > > > > I think modal dialogs and normal dialogs suffer from the same > disadvantages in this situation. > > Ethan >
