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Originally Posted by MetroMPG
I personally detest the hover widget, but it's probably a necessary evil. (We can probably get one that can be turned on/off in user preferences.)
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I think hover text has gotten a bad rap because too many marketeers think it's a great way to hawk all kinds of crap at us with big splashy flash ads that pop just by waving your cursor past them and won't go away unless you click on them. Yeech...so don't do that.
I was thinking of something a smidge more tasteful like the tooltips you already have on your "EcoModder home" (headerL.jpg) logo as well as other icons:
(reference the alt attribute in anchor and image tags). They don't involve any kind of widget in the rendered page and don't activate unless you actually hover over the item for a couple seconds, unlike the aggressive popup ads you may be thinking of. It would, however, suggest some server-side scripting on your side to detect say 3, 4, and 5 letter all caps strings found in an acronym list. Isn't there already a profanity filter that modifies strings found in the nasty-word list?
In your prefs, you could turn on/off "EcoModder tips" to momentarily show the words on which known acronyms are based. It would simply be meant as an optional click saver in looking them up.
Alternatively, you could make acronyms links to their definitions, but may be harder to distinguish between these and links entered by a posting's author. I'm no IA (Info Architecture) or usability expert, just a thought.
YMMV
