Comments on: Prototip 1.1: Adding more control to your tooltips

By: mel

mel — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:13:10 +0000

Have anyone figured out how to get prototip to work with mootools?

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:23:36 +0000

@Andrew: By default tooltips will stay within the viewport, unless they are fixed or hooked. This is to make sure you get them in the right position. You can toggle this behavior using the options.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:40:45 +0000

Not a fan of tooltips that are not aware of the browser edge.
They should shift towards the centre to ensure the tooltip is never cut off.

By: Shuo Geng

Shuo Geng — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:27:30 +0000

Very nice work. Already use it at my current work. Keep going, Nick.

By: Daniel Skinner

Daniel Skinner — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:22:54 +0000

Thanks Nick for the new preview release. I am glad to see a lot of the features people were requesting have quickly made it into the next release. Thanks to everyone involved with Prototip.

By: Mark Holton

Mark Holton — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:44:00 +0000

…very cool, I’ll have to try this out and take a look at the code!

By: Pi

Pi — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:38:04 +0000

Anyone else notice how well designed the actual prototip page is? Excellent typography, colors and layout, imho.

And yeah, fab tooltip library :)

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:13:00 +0000

I noticed a few pixels of movement in a couple of examples also. Sort of distracting, I think. Otherwise, it’s very nicely done. Good job!

By: mark

mark — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:42:14 +0000

I like it too!

And there’s nothing wrong with the file size. Most people working on projects these days use one of the main JS APIs (jquery,mootools,prototype,ext,etc). If you happen to use Prototype, this is an excellent addition.

With example 14 I didn’t like how the tip followed the mouse for a couple of pixels — would ‘fixed: true’ have locked it in place?

By: DarkRat

DarkRat — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:48:25 +0000

nice work. I like it

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:15:29 +0000

@Mark: prototip.js only 13kb unpacked. Included in the download is the latest version of prototype that’s why it’s big.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:12:27 +0000

So… 160kb script for a Tooltip? Not counting effects lib.

Packed, thats around 60kb or so? Thanks, but I think ill write my own.