Wow, this plugin sounds great! I will certainly give it a try. Cheers, Jaykul. 🙂
The idea seems too good to be true. I’ll give it a try.
The examples in your post are supposed to do nothing?
As a first bug, does not validate Strict XHTML.
there is no attribute "language"
I didn’t select to use them. Isn’t there a way to disable it when it’s not selected?
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jaykul
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I fixed the javascript link to take out the language attribute, I had just copied it from the DomTT website and not tried validating. Validates XHTML 1.0->1.1 now. 😉
The one thing that’s missing right now is that you have to choose upfront to either use the JS (javascript), or not … if you choose to use it, it takes the title attribute off the acronym or abbr (abbreviation) tag, which means if people have JS disabled, they won’t see a pop-up tooltip.
Personally, I think the tooltips on acronyms are a bit of an ugly crutch — I prefer the plain English way of doing things: spell out the meaning of the abbreviation the first time you use it, unless you expect your readers to already know what it means.
But as an option on the script, I’m considering flipping it around so you can choose to have the javascript itself replace the “title” attribute with the tooltip, if you want. (It’s not that way now because normal tooltips can’t have HTML, so if you wanted to do it that way, you would have to avoid HTML)
I absolutely love this plugin. Thanks a ton! I don’t use the javascript, but I know the regular functioning of this one is perfect.
Jaykul: Reading what you said about ugly tooltip stuff and thought I’d suggest another way of doing things. It’s possible to use plain CSS to pop-out text from an abbreviation:
abbr span{display:none;}
abbr:hover span{display:inline;}
<abbr>H<span>yper </span>T<span>ext </span>M<span>arkup </span>L<span>anguage </span></abbr>
A bit more involved coding-wise maybe but you may enjoy!
Example here.
Just had a little snoop around the site & must say I love the implementation of the popouts you have just now.
I could see real powerful uses if something like this pulled from the destination of a link – a summary of the article pointed to for example.
Got me thinking now…
This might be outside Worpress scope (browser plugin territory) but if you’d be interested in a chat about doing something like that give me an email.
