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Some mobile apps use long press for tooltips. I wish it would become the norm as it's often that I have no idea what a button does, and tooltips would help with
by laurent123456 7y ago
Some mobile apps use long press for tooltips. I wish it would become the norm as it's often that I have no idea what a button does, and tooltips would help with that.
- tomlong 7y agoThere's also a pretty long standing convention that long press gets you right click type functionality. It's a difficult thing to be consistent with. For me personally it would be nice if there was a reliable way to detect a quick jab (tool tip), vs a press, vs a long press, but I could see this does not working well for people with mobility issues etc.
- chiefalchemist 7y agoYes. That's the "proxy" I mentioned. But it's not common, and (worse) touch-and-hold is kinda the opposite of hover.
- java-man 7y agoPerhaps on a touch screen device one could use a "help mode" which freezes the UI interaction and displays ballon help over each UI element. Tap the balloon and it expands with more detailed explanation. The help mode could be triggered by a tap on an always present (?) icon somewhere in the corner.