Good analysis. I love traditional tooltips. They don't work so well for touch devices, but if you've got a mouse they're great and can almost be seen as a prog

Good analysis. I love traditional tooltips. They don't work so well for touch devices, but if you've got a mouse they're great and can almost be seen as a progressive enhancement. I'm also a fan of the even older tooltip cousin where a bottom status bar of a window has info about the object in the window that currently has focus. This has disappeared from many apps, but is especially useful to keyboard users.