Re: [Boost-docs] Pop-up comment callouts?

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] Pop-up comment callouts?
From: Daniel James (daniel_james_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-03 11:08:08

David Abrahams wrote:
> Seems to me that when I hover my mouse over one of the little
> left-hand-side number markers at
> http://beta.boost.org/development/doc/doc_test/doc/html/document_to_test_formatting/code_blocks.html#document_to_test_formatting.code_blocks.embedded_code
> I should get a pop-up box containing the comment text.  If we can do
> portable menus like those at http://boost-consulting.com with pure
> CSS, that shouldn't be too hard, should it?

Only if you move the callout text into the code example (so that it 
would be in the correct position when it pops up). I don't think that's 
a good idea.

It could be done with javascript though. I can have a look into this in 
the future.

Daniel