On Aug 20, 2007, at 11:59 PM, Mitch wrote:
I felt Karl's cluetip popups on his demo seemed slow to respond to me,
and I did not like that I had to add another plugin to use them
(dimensions). On the other hand Karl does a great job on documenting
his work and is incredibly helpful so....Unless I someone bails me out
I will have to switch.
Hi Mitch,
The slowness of the clueTips in the demo might have to do with the
general suckiness of the server it's on. You might want to try
placing the plugin and demo files on your own server and testing
there to see how general the problem is. Who knows, though -- maybe
all of the positioning calculations are slowing it down, too.
I understand the concern about overloading your pages with
multiple .js includes. Dimensions, though, is such a spectacular
plugin for getting/setting position that I just didn't feel I could
do without it. Anyway, its inclusion might be one of the reasons that
the clueTip doesn't suffer from the same variable positioning
problems you're experiencing with the jTip plugin in IE7. Also, a lot
of other plugins depend on Dimensions, too, so you might find
yourself having to use it anyway.
By the way, I just released a new version of clueTip ( 0.8.5 ) at
http://jquery.com/plugins/project/cluetip/ so if you do decide to use
it (no pressure ;-) ), grab that one.
--Karl
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