[tei-council] Popup bibliography references in the Guidelines

[Peter Stadler]

I briefly tested on Mac 10.9.4 with
* Safari 7.0.5: ok
* Firefox 30: ok
* Chrome 35: ok

While this seems a great thing to have, it actually doesn’t feel like a tooltip since it’s quite far away from the actual link string. I can imagine situations (large screen, link text early on the left) where it’ll be hard to notice the popup at all and second you’ll have to go a long way with your pointer to close that popup again.
Maybe that’s more a general issue, but aren’t there nice (e.g. JQuery) tooltip libraries we could use for that (and other) purposes?

Best
Peter


Am 04.07.2014 um 07:52 schrieb Paul Schaffner <PFSchaffner at umich.edu>:

> Running on Windows 7
> And visiting
> http://teijenkins.hcmc.uvic.ca/job/TEIP5/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/CE.html
> ...
> 
> Checking for the odd bullet points
> 
> IE 11 does indeed push the list bullets from the first list
> on the page (the list beginning "the note element defined in section
> 3.8 ...") over to the left margin and therefore overlays the
> table of contents box.
> 
> Safari 5.1.7 displays fine
> Firefox 30 displays fine
> Chrome 35 displays fine
> 
> (I haven't installed Comodo Dragon or Ice Dragon on this machine yet:
>  those are my usual browsers -- locked down versions of the Mozilla
>  and Chromium code respectively.)
> 
> 
> Testing the links
> 
> Safari 5.1.7 works well as both mouseover tip and onclick popup, though
>   those do not (of course) exactly match.
> Firefox 30 ditto.
> Chrome 35 ditto.
> IE 11 ditto.
> 
> 
> pfs
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014, at 20:26, Martin Holmes wrote:
>> Incidentally, I noticed something odd when testing this. If you're using 
>> IE on Windows, could you go here:
>> 
>> <http://teijenkins.hcmc.uvic.ca/job/TEIP5/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/CE.html>
>> 
>> and confirm that you see, as I do, four strange bullet points mixed in 
>> with the navigation links at the top left of the page?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>> 
>> On 14-07-03 05:22 PM, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>> Some of you might remember that last year I added some JavaScript to the
>>> Guidelines HTML output that modifies what used to be jumping-links from
>>> the text down to the footnotes into a slightly more elegant system
>>> whereby a footnote now shows in a popup without causing your browser
>>> window to jump around. For a long while I've been intending to extend
>>> that so that it also handles bibliography links. I had time to do that
>>> on the plane home, and it's now in the Jenkins builds. For example, if
>>> you go here:
>>> 
>>> <http://teijenkins.hcmc.uvic.ca/job/TEIP5/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/CE.html>
>>> 
>>> and look for the reference "Kay (ed.) (2007)" and click on it, you
>>> should see it show in a popup instead of bouncing you off to the
>>> BIB.html page.
>>> 
>>> As with the previous footnote code, this fails gracefully; if you have
>>> JavaScript turned off, or your browser refuses to do this for some
>>> reason, you'll just default to bouncing to the BIB page as before. If
>>> you're looking at a purely local copy of the Guidelines on your hard
>>> drive, Chrome does refuse to do this because it's suspicious of your
>>> intentions, so you just get the normal link behaviour.
>>> 
>>> I've tested this in Firefox, Chrome, and Opera on Linux, and IE on
>>> Windows, and it seems to be working everywhere. I'd appreciate a bit of
>>> testing on Safari and on Mac versions of browsers if you have a minute.
>>> 
>>> For anyone interested in how this works: it creates an invisible iframe
>>> after the page has loaded, and loads the BIB.html page into it, so that
>>> it can then retrieve the bibl references from there and put them in the
>>> popup. There is no actual change to the Guidelines HTML code at all;
>>> it's all done by JS that runs after the page loads. I'm as uncomfortable
>>> with iframes as the next person, but this one never actually appears in
>>> our HTML, so I think it's worth it.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Martin
>>> 
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