Rollover hotspots and tooltips

Craig Downey

I'm finding that the rollover hotspot for items like the McReynolds Interlinear and the opentext.org GNT are way too small and hard to navigate. It might be because the hitspot are registered wrong. I'm finding the the rollover spot is off to the bottom right of the word.

There are also consistency issues. First in the Opentext.org GNT if I do find the rollover spot I get a tool tip that shows up in the bottom lefthand corner. If I hold for a little longer I get a tooltip popup closer to the mouse position, I'll say as an interactive designer that this is far perferable, the bottom tooltip is way to far away from the text and creates unnecessary eye strain. This mouse position tooltip doesn't always showup either. I'm not sure what causes the tooltip to show or not show up, but it often happens with the preposition ev.

Secondly the near-mouse tooltip feature doesn't carry across similar texts. In the McReynolds Interlinear, a bottom left tooltip shows up, but not the tooltip closer to the mouse position. In OpenText.org Clause analysis rolling over the inflected greek word brings up the bottom left tooltip, but no mouse tooltip (the lexical forms doesn't respond to rollover). Rolling over a structure marker (ie. the A for adjunct) doesn't bring up any rollover help either below left or near mouse.

Dave Hooton

I agree!

Rich DeRuiter

For the McReynolds Interlinear, the 'hot spot' is on the English gloss (not the Greek text, nor anywhere else). BTW, this is the only place to double-click to pull up a lexicon.