Whoops! I just created ESME-186 and attached it there: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ESME-186
Ethan On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Richard Hirsch <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >
