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Re:Show HN: hint.css – a tooltip library in CSS by hnriot on Monday February 04, 2013 @11:24AM (#5164935)
What's wrong with title="my took tip" and let th browser do it? For browsers that don't its a single line of jQuery.
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Re:Show HN: hint.css – a tooltip library in CSS by pornel on Monday February 04, 2013 @12:16PM (#5165404)
Unfortunately `title` implementations are broken for pretty much everybody except mouse users on desktop:

http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2013/01/using-the-html-tit...

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Re:Show HN: hint.css – a tooltip library in CSS by philfreo on Monday February 04, 2013 @03:37PM (#5166940)
The time spent hovering for the built in title attribute to be displayed is so long that most users will never see/notice the tooltip.
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Re:Show HN: hint.css – a tooltip library in CSS by danso on Monday February 04, 2013 @11:32AM (#5164997)
Because the browser may render the tool tip slower than you'd like. Plus, it may be too generic a look for bespoke sites.
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Re:Show HN: hint.css – a tooltip library in CSS by baby on Monday February 04, 2013 @12:20PM (#5165457)
it's just stylizing. What CSS does in general.
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Re:Show HN: hint.css – a tooltip library in CSS by ibrahima on Monday February 04, 2013 @07:23PM (#5168219)
It'd be interesting if you could just apply CSS to title attributes rather than have to add stuff to the DOM to reimplement a basic browser feature. Certainly these types of tooltip libraries look and behave better, but I wonder if it's really the best solution.
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Re:Show HN: hint.css – a tooltip library in CSS by baby on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @03:23AM (#5169720)
Legit CSS for tooltip and scrolling bars will arrive some day. I hope.
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