RE: Misc: A warning to neologizers

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

Voxwoman said:


> > Hovertext?
> > OMG, I thought that was tooltips.


> >But seriously, my /w/e/a/p/o/n/ browser of choice (Firefox) truncates
> > the hovertext on most of those cartoons, while the despised MSIE
> > displays the whole thing.

> Upgrade to FF3. That displays all the "alt" text (I call it that
because 
> that's where it goes in the IMG tag). I like "hovertext" better than
"alt" 
> text. To me, a tooltip is the hover text for a GUI tool (or the end of
a 
> screwdriver or a pair of pliers).


I was just riffing on what-we-do - you know, techwriting, help, etc.
Thus the tooltip slant, as opposed to what a general audience would
think of first.

Kevin makes a whooshing sound as he swipes his hand front-to-back just
above his crewcut.
(Then he ducks, runs and hides.  :-)



Come to think of it, I've got FF3 on one PC and FF2.x on another
explicitly to reveal differences in how web and help stuff is presented.
Silly me.

 - Kevin 

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