[Proto-Scripty] Re: Need help for performantly creating tooltips

2009-07-24 Thread klochner
What about css tool tips with onmouseover/anchors? On Jul 23, 12:21 am, Chris c...@clicksports.de wrote: Hi all! @Trevan: Thank you for this information, I am going to look if I need to tweak that function or if I leave it alone. @Matt: As stated in my mail from 22 Jul., 12:07, this is

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Need help for performantly creating tooltips

2009-07-23 Thread Chris
Hi all! @Trevan: Thank you for this information, I am going to look if I need to tweak that function or if I leave it alone. @Matt: As stated in my mail from 22 Jul., 12:07, this is no option for us. I am well aware that the title-Attribute exists, but cannot use it for the reasons I stated in

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Need help for performantly creating tooltips

2009-07-22 Thread Chris
Hi Alex, 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) Well, Im not screeming :). Looks very nice, but some of the application

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Need help for performantly creating tooltips

2009-07-22 Thread Mona Remlawi
Event Delegation is your friend. You can get an idea on http://usabletype.com/weblog/event-delegation-without-javascript-library/ Intrigued? Check out a live demo on event delegation in action on http://javascript.nwbox.com/NWEvents/delegates.html Really cool stuff, try editing the HTML DOM in

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Need help for performantly creating tooltips

2009-07-22 Thread Chris
Hi Chris, At the risk of stating the bleedin' obvious - and maybe there's a good reason why you can't do this - have you thought about simply sing title attributes for the elements? In most, if not all, modern browsers, they produce tooltips when the element is rolled over. There are some

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Need help for performantly creating tooltips

2009-07-22 Thread ColinFine
On Jul 21, 10:00 pm, Diodeus diod...@gmail.com wrote: Performantly isn't a word. Prove it. Hint: you can't. There is no test that you can apply which will establish that this isn't a word. Furthermore, it is perfectly understandable. This kind of ill-informed pedantry is annoying at the

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Need help for performantly creating tooltips

2009-07-22 Thread Jeff Conklin
script.aculo.us prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 12:05 PM Subject: [Proto-Scripty] Re: Need help for performantly creating tooltips On Jul 21, 10:00 pm, Diodeus diod...@gmail.com wrote: Performantly isn't a word. Prove it. Hint: you can't

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Need help for performantly creating tooltips

2009-07-22 Thread Peter De Berdt
On 22 Jul 2009, at 17:13, Walter Lee Davis wrote: Yes, please. I would really like to see how event delegation handles the mouseout event. Until the next Prototype is ready and stable, and offering mousenter/leave support in all browsers, I have been using some pretty squirrely logic to

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Need help for performantly creating tooltips

2009-07-22 Thread Chris
Hi all, first of all, thank you for your answers (And yes I swear, ill never use performantly or performant in this Group again :)). It seems like event delegation is the way to go. So, I just looked over the links you posted (thanks for them!), but they dont seem to do something different than

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Need help for performantly creating tooltips

2009-07-22 Thread Trevan Richins
On 7/22/2009 11:05 AM, Chris wrote: moverListener: function(e) { elm = Event.findElement(e, '.' + this.classes); if(elm !== undefined) { this.showToolTip(elm) } else return; },

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Need help for performantly creating tooltips

2009-07-22 Thread Matt Foster
I think one of the easiest ways to handle tooltips is just let the native browser deal with it, using the title attribute with imgs and anchor elements will pop a 100 word tip on what the action will take. So just create the tool with a title attribute and then you're good to go. ---

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Need help for performantly creating tooltips

2009-07-21 Thread Diodeus
Performantly isn't a word. On Jul 21, 10:31 am, Chris c...@clicksports.de wrote: Hi all, one of our clients has a very javascript heavy application for local intranets. On many pages of this application, there are tooltips that get loaded (usually up to 60 or 70), which make the application

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Need help for performantly creating tooltips

2009-07-21 Thread Alex McAuley
: Need help for performantly creating tooltips Performantly isn't a word. On Jul 21, 10:31 am, Chris c...@clicksports.de wrote: Hi all, one of our clients has a very javascript heavy application for local intranets. On many pages of this application, there are tooltips that get loaded (usually

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Need help for performantly creating tooltips

2009-07-21 Thread Richard Quadling
2009/7/21 Alex McAuley webmas...@thecarmarketplace.com: Good thing he said performant then init !! :P And even then it is a neologism and proscribed [1]. [1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/performant -- - Richard Quadling Zend Certified Engineer :

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Need help for performantly creating tooltips

2009-07-21 Thread Chris
Well, at all I thought I would get some help and not taunts for my english (I am not a native speaker, but I think it should be clear what I mean). Greetings from Germany, Chris --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the