The Old New Thing

June 26, 2006 - The Old New Thing

Look who bought my name

June 26, 2006 Jun 26, 2006 06/26/06
Raymond Chen
Commenter Pavel Vozenilek noticed that if you type my name into Google, there is only one sponsored link, and it's from Google themselves, inviting you to apply for a job there. (Maybe I should sue. Perhaps I can get a settlement.) When I mentioned this to some other people at Microsoft, they started hunting around to see what sort of ...

Coding in-place tooltips

June 26, 2006 Jun 26, 2006 06/26/06
Raymond Chen
Today we'll look at how to implement in-place tooltips. These are tooltips that appear when the user hovers the mouse over a string that cannot be displayed in its entirety. The tooltip overlays the partially-displayed text and provides the remainder of the text that had been truncated. The keys to this technique are the notification (which ...