[log] Recreating MS Windows Help Popups
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Overlib [example] is nice enough, I guess, but I still think the ideal popup behaviour for DEFINITIONS is the example set my the old microsoft help (mshtml) model….
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HERE’S HOW MS HELP BEHAVES:
if you point at link, nothing happens. (changes to HAND icon).
if you PAUSE at link, a small TITLE box comes up : “View definition”
if you CLICK on the link, the overlaid window OVERLAPS THE WORD and STAYS THERE
until … YOU CLICK ANYWHERE !!!!!!!!!!!
(click on the popup, click on the main page, click outside the window…. anything)
THE WINDOW CLOSES ON LEFT CLICK __AND_ RIGHT CLICK.
THE ONLY EXCEPTION TO THIS “CLICK ANYWHERE” behaviour is if you click
on a link in the POPUP itself. In this case, it opens the new definition in the exact
same location.
