Dude, those are some damn nice titles.
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Yes, very nice eye candy.
Remember when a ”little bit of JavaScript” meant a couple mouseovers, some browser detection, and playing around with the status bar text?
And remember when everybody wrote it as ”JavaScript” and you didn’t give that extra cap a second thought?
Nice script, not my cup of tea really though. It would make a nicer bookmarklet perhaps so its more the users choice wether they want a site with popups like that.
Also, I noticed you’re ”Good RSS” image button at the bottom of the right menu is causing an error with the script. Perhaps because its an image and not text.
A couple mouseovers, a few dozen gifs, and a big block of MMPreloadYaddaYadda…
I’m thinking bookmarklet too, less because I want to allow people to choose to not use it than because I want to be able to use it elsewhere (Moz doesn’t show enough characters in its own tooltips to read the entire title on things like Anil’s linklog, and I hate it when they go away before I’m done with them). Not sure it can be compressed down to bookmarklet size, though, which means inserting remote script into the page, which isn’t impossible but I’ll have to remember how it’s done. Or delay long enough that someone else will do it.
Image error: yep, good catch. There’s a bit where the script walks up the node tree to an A tag if the event was fired in a text node, but it needs to also walk up if it’s fired in anything but an A tag, too. Fixed and reported. Thanks.
MMPreload, ewww.
Try using http://www.bleedingego.co.uk/code/js/rollover/
They kind of scared me at first. But they’re nifty. Just like you, Phil.
Bleedingrollover: mm, pretty. And not an && in sight, which is really my only contact with MMPreload: Blogger used to be really bad about converting a js logical AND to an unending stream of &s, adding one per edit, so there was I time when I could view-source, spot MMPreload, and say ”in the line that starts…”, without (fortunately) having to look any farther.
S.: Hi, sweetie! Are you back with us, or just passing through?
Very soon, back with you. New computer should be here Monday. I’m beside myself. I’ll have a *dual-monitor* setup, even. Sure is miles away from my P233, yes?
Strange little glitch I’m finding with the ”Dude-Nice-Titles”. I don’t know enough about JavaScript to know why, though. I’m using IE6, and when I roll over one of the nice-titles, it reactivates the IE6 scrolling bug. I was reading your post about Mark Hershberger and Dame Julien of Norwich and The River Why (lovely post, beautiful quotes) and when I rolled over the link to Mark’s site — boom! I’m all of a sudden thrown back to the bottom of the first screenful, and the scrollbar is grayed out, indicating to me that I have to make some slight size adjustment in the window to read the post. Anyone else notice this? (Or am I the only one using IE6?)
That is freaky. I didn’t notice, but either my fix for the scrolling bug (add an XML declaration, which puts IE in quirks mode and thus avoids the bug) went away on its own, or the titles are killing that, too, even before you roll over one. But the sudden jerk back to the bottom of the sidebar when you mouseover a titled link toward the bottom of the page has got to go: that’s just terrible! What to do, what to do…