Chris. If you dont want to write your own may i suggest (proto fanboys dont scream blasphomy at me !!)
http://flowplayer.org/tools/tooltip.html Its very very lightweight and very configurable (relies on jQuery) Alex Mcauley http://www.thevacancymarket.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris" <c...@clicksports.de> To: "Prototype & script.aculo.us" <prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 11:25 PM Subject: [Proto-Scripty] Re: Need help for performantly creating tooltips > > Ah, now I understand your problem with this word. When I wrote this I > didnt know that this isnt even a "real" world for native english > speakers. In Germany it is just one of those "it-words" that people > are using all the time. I just translated this word, assuming that my > english version of it would exist :) > > Ok, to ask the question again (without using the word performant or > performance): > > If I have about 60 tooltips on page (that could load another subset of > elements, that maybe have tooltips too), I would have about 120 > listeners (each tooltip needs at least a mouseover and one mouseout, > right?). Is it the right way to just add two listeners (as in my > example in my first post), which fire only on the elements I want? > This would take the needed listeners from about 120 to only 2, which > seems to be a really nice thing. > > But if I do it with only two listeners, every time something is > hovered, it uses the findElement()-method to check for a tooltip. So > what is faster and less memory consuming? > > Greetings from Germany, > Chris > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
