Re: [Boost-users] Tooltips in the documentation

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Tooltips in the documentation
From: OvermindDL1 (overminddl1_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-07 22:29:50

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Lee Richmond <lee_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Eric Niebler wrote:
>>
>> On 5/7/2010 12:56 AM, Daniel Lidström wrote:
>>>
>>> the boost documentation is often excellent. It is very nice to see so
>>> many libraries
>>> being documented in the same way, which makes it a pleasant reading.
>>> However, some of it
>>> (generated by Quickbook?) show a tooltip at the cursor location. I find
>>> it slightly
>>> annoying and not very helpful.
>>
>> Where? Can you give an example?
>>
>
> Using FireFox v3.6.3, a tooltip describing the page/section will appear
> under the mouse pointer.
>
> At, for instance:
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_43_0/doc/html/proto.html
>
> A tooltip with the text "Chapter 15. Boost.Proto" is shown. Similar for all
> subpages and/or subsections of subpages.

I concur, it has bugged me too, even to the extent of making a
greasemonkey script that strips the title's/alt's of divs on the boost
site.