[RESOLVED] Should We Keep the Thread ToolTips?

[MartinLiss]

Please let us know if we should keep the thread ToolTips.

[crptcblade]

They don't bother me, but I can see how it might potentially slow down the pages a little as more little bits of data now need to be fetched and rendered.

[MartinLiss]

Speaking as a member and not as a moderator, they bother me because using IE they get in the way of other thread titles and in any case they don't stay around long enough to be read completely.

[RobDog888]

I completely hate them. They get in the way and you cant read whats on the page etc. Annoying as heck IMO.

[GaryMazzone]

If I can't decide if I want to read the thread from the title I will not spend the time tring to read the thread tips.

[Andrew G]

Personally they don't bother me. But i can see why they would be a problem on other browsers. (I'm using FX btw, so i only see the one line)

Edit: Thats IE6

[RobDog888]

IE 7:

[szlamany]

Although they could be useful...

They do not last long enough to read the entire tip - that's just frustrating - I would consider that a bug!

If you could make it so that hovering over something other than the "clickable title" got you the tip - it would be better.

But again - if it doesn't last long enough to read a large post then it's useless.

[visualAd]

I voted yes, but meant to vote no

[Andy_P]

I'm not too bothered either way, but the timing could be adjusted - Wait a bit longer before they appear, and hang around a bit longer when they do.

[MartinLiss]

I voted yes, but meant to vote no

I changed it for you.

[AIS4U]

I find them very annoying and would vote not to keep them.

[techgnome]

Don't care one way or the other. Didn't even know they were active. I don't usually mouse over a link long enough to have it pop up. As someone previously stated, if the title isn't enough for me to click it, the pop up probably won't either.

although, there might be a couple of instances where the title reads "HELP ME PLZZZZ" .... in which casethe tool tip might be worthwhile....

-tg

[RobDog888]

If you look at my post #7 you can see how the tooltip popups for the entire TD and not just the link. If it was only for the link I think it would be better.

[visualAd]

Thank you.

- How are these tooltips loaded? Are they sent along with the page or loaded when the mouse hovers over the thread title. If it is the latter, then there is no reason why the guys at Vbulletin cannot code it properly using a floating div that responds to actions such as the mouse moving away or the escape key.

It could even in theory be scrollable.

[penagate]

They're sent as title attributes on the cells.

[visualAd]

that's bad news

[Shaggy Hiker]

I voted "Don't Care" because I can live with them, but many of the comments on here I also agree with. The tooltips don't come up long enough to read, and they aren't all that helpful to me, but they also don't seem to come up every time, or perhaps I am just moving around too fast to see them. Either way, they don't actually bother me, but nor do I use them.

[MartinLiss]

They've been removed.

[Ellis Dee]

Ha, I'm a day late and a dollar short. As a dialup user, I find them invaluable in that I can make more judicious decisions on whether a thread is interesting enough to open. No big deal, though.

Several posters complained that they didn't stay up long enough. They stay up an arbitrarily long time if you slowly move your mouse on the link. Whenever the mouse moves, the counter resets.

So while you gotta tease them to stay open, it's easy and effective. And vaguely dirty...