[imp] Better tooltips

[Jan Schneider]

Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu>:

> Tooltip support using the "title" tag (on <a> links) is pretty sketchy
> and
> definitely not consistent across browsers.  As such, I've been playing
> around with some tooltip javascript libraries to see what I could come up
> with.  This was the best library I found:
> 
> DOM Tooltip  http://www.mojavelinux.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=127

I knew them for a long time but they are still getting better.
 
> Best of all, it is under the LGPL license so it could be easily absorbed
> into Horde.
> 
> Mainly, I've been playing with tooltips as a method to better view
> previews
> of messages in IMP.  I personally don't like the previews appearing in
> the
> Thread/subject field - it is much nicer to only see the previews when
> mousing over.  Using the title tag is limited because some browsers
> (Mozilla) limit it to 80 characters with no linebreaks allowed.  IE
> allows
> longer tooltips, but it's HTML support in the tooltips is extremely
> limited.
> 
> The DOM tooltip library provides clean, fast output in a fairly small
> package (the two JS files that need to be included are 30 KB - they
> theoretically can be cached by the browser since they are called via a
> <script src=""> tag).

I'd agree that it's a nice to have if it stays a preference. I definitly
don't want to see this used everywhere in Horde/IMP, but for this special
purpose (and maybe a few others) it would help a lot.

Jan.

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