Ajax tooltip March 21, 2006
I was looking for an ajax tooltip the other day, and I happened to find one that was actually pretty good. The tooltip itself is called “Bubble Tooltip“. This is very similar to the netflix tooltip.
What makes it easy is that you use basically one image for the background of the tooltip. If you want a fancy tooltip such as their example, you need to make the image a PNG to have the best transparency. You then write some basic css for the top and bottom of the tooltip.
Even though this is a pretty impressive ajax tooltip, I think I could do something similar with Prototype. I’ll try to write a new ajax tooltip script that utilizes Prototype since that is what I’ve been using mostly when I write ajax script.
http://web-graphics.com/mtarchive/001717.php
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2 Responses to “Ajax tooltip”
It’s a nice bubble tooltip — but it’s not ajax…. ajax would load an external file and allow you to define the contents of the bubble (images, text, etc.) rather than just display a line or two of text.
I’m well aware of that. But at the time this was written, a lot of people were confusing ajax with pure javascript. Almost as if the word “ajax” was replacing “javascript”. I fell into the trap of calling javascript “ajax” as well.