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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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 Posted - 11/08/2010 : 08:45:38
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It's taken me all these years of not paying attention to realize I've been getting it wrong about mouse-rollovers in Internet Explorer and Firefox. Shame on me, but I hope my revelation may help others.
I really enjoy using Firefox, though I've always felt frustrated that placing your cursor [NOT clicking] but just a rollover - would normally produce a tooltip in IE, but seemed not to work in Firefox. A tooltip is a blob of info/data that appears when you rest your mouse on a word or phrase or image.
Dunno how I've missed it all these years, but I now can see that what would be called a tooltip in IE, becomes a status bar message in FF.
You can try it by mousing over [NOT clicking] in the top right corner of fwfr where it gives the Clue to Which Film. In IE you normally get a sentence giving the year and star of the film for you to guess. But in FF, that info appears in the status bar.
Who knew? Well, we all do now!!!  
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Demisemicenturian 
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 11/08/2010 : 08:48:35
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Originally posted by 11Babe
It's taken me all these years of not paying attention to realize I've been getting it wrong about mouse-rollovers in Internet Explorer and Firefox. Shame on me, but I hope my revelation may help others.
I really enjoy using Firefox, though I've always felt frustrated that placing your cursor [NOT clicking] but just a rollover - would normally produce a tooltip in IE, but seemed not to work in Firefox. A tooltip is a blob of info/data that appears when you rest your mouse on a word or phrase or image.
Dunno how I've missed it all these years, but I now can see that what would be called a tooltip in IE, becomes a status bar message in FF.
You can try it by mousing over [NOT clicking] in the top right corner of fwfr where it gives the Clue to Which Film. In IE you normally get a sentence giving the year and star of the film for you to guess. But in FF, that info appears in the status bar.
Who knew? Well, we all do now!!!
Seeing as you don't seem to be asking Benj to correct or even change anything, I don't really understand how this falls under Site Maintenance. |
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