Re: position: pointer

I won't go into how bad accessibility/UX I think those are, but it's a
valid use case.

That said, stationary tooltips (especially ones that contain interactive UI
elements) are better placed relative to the element they are tooltips of
(rather than relative to mouse position), and can already be achieved in
pure markup, I made a small jsfiddle to demonstrate this [1].

Cheers,
Jussi

[1] http://jsfiddle.net/quinnirill/VkKmT/

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>wrote:

> On 10/10/12, Jussi Kalliokoski <jussi.kalliokoski@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > But let me ask a counter-question: what's the use case / potential
> > advantage for that? Quite honestly, imho stationary tooltips are quite
> > annoying, if your mouse is in the wrong place when they're activated,
> they
> > block your view from something and get in the way of the pointer.
> >
>
> Stationary tooltips, sticky menus, panels, etc can have stuff inside
> for the user to interact with by clicking or selecting text. How do
> Opera and Chrome handle display of the calendar widget for HTML5 input
> type="data"?
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