On Friday 16 March 2007 05:59, Ed W wrote: > Hi > > > 2) "tooltip" description for specific widgets on the screens. > > > > Any other thoughts?
Perhaps nodes can be tagged with special classes? And an option, either inline on the page, or on the menu frame, can turn on the tooltips (like, Balloons in MacOS <= 9.0) All it would do is active some javascript that inspects the node under the pointer, runs var help_topic_ids = /(hlp_\w+?)/.exec(node.className), (className so we can reserve id= for scripting purposes) And then via AJAX, frames or whatever, queries a locale-specific short help string, and optionally offers a link to a full longer description (in the manual, perhaps?) I think this will simply the layout for the html templates, and give us flexibility to update all the online help without having to chase down each individual template and script that embed help strings. It'll also let use reuse hlp_\w+ identifiers on the same form, and across other forms w/o having to duplicate the tooltip string. Jason ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
