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Not to mention that half the time tooltips don't show up until you wiggle the mouse over them a bunch, and tooltip delays are arbitrarily timed and usually far,
by caymanjim 3y ago
Not to mention that half the time tooltips don't show up until you wiggle the mouse over them a bunch, and tooltip delays are arbitrarily timed and usually far, far too delayed (often on the order of hundreds of milliseconds when they should be like 10-50ms at most). And my biggest pet peeve about them is that, at least in Chromium-based browsers, they really don't like to go away once they finally show up, to the extent that I can often scroll the page until they're offscreen and they still don't disappear. Or they leave the farm entirely and persist outside the browser window.
- WorldMaker 3y agoAlso, most windows aren't eligible for tooltips if they are not the focused, active window. I remember that difference being hard to explain to people when Windows 3.x and Mac Classic used entirely different title bars between the two states and sometimes even "shadowed" the window contents. It's especially hard to explain to today in a multi-monitor world and when inactive windows respond by default to all other inputs except some hover behaviors like tooltips. (I'm a software developer and know all this too well and I still tripped over it the other day wondering why tooltips wouldn't show up in a window and only realizing belatedly that the window wasn't active.)