New Tooltips version in need of review.

[Vladdy]

Hello everyone.

I'm in the process of rewriting my tooltips (this is the link to original version) (http://www.vladdy.net/webdesign/tooltips.html) and would like to have everyone's opinion if I'm heading in the right direction.
I decided to ditch the "following the mouse" feature (at least for now) to include the following:
- support of title attribute for backward compatibility
- ability to use predefined HTML blocks for tooltips and tooltip text frames (nothing to do with HTML frames)
- expanded persistence options.
The preview of the new version can be found here (http://www.klproductions.com/KLTooltipsDemo.html)

[meow]

Sadly enough I have bug report. In Opera 7 the links that are supposed to display a tooltip totally disappear when hovered and no tooltip appears. Opera flags no javascript errors.

Very odd. If there is:
before before link text after after

After hovering the link there is:
before before after after

:confused:

[Vladdy]

Never cared for Opera support, but will check when I have time... Thanks for the heads-up though.

[meow]

Oh. I can understand if you don't care about if the pop-ups work in Opera or not (they do on the old page btw) but surely making a page unusable in unsupported browsers is taking it a little to far? :eek:

[Vladdy]

Unfortunately Opera pretends to be able to do more than it can (promising more than you can deliver is hardly a recipe for success). Right now the script tests for method support before proceeding to modify the page, I guess for the release version I would have to check specifically for Opera and leave it alone. From what you described the problem seems to be the Opera’s handling of regular expresions…