[thelist] More Smart Tags
Robert Goodyear
rob_goodyear at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 26 12:58:49 CDT 2001
Those are tooltips. You can do that easily in JS with this guy's implementation:
http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/
--- Joshua OIson <joshua at alphashop.net> wrote:
> I just noticed something on MSDN that I never noticed before. When I
> highlight a word on the page, a glossary definition opens up. I'm using ie
> 5.0. I think this is pretty neat, even if it IS a precursor to smart tags.
>
> example:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/server/help/default.asp
>
> Since it looks like they might be keeping this entirely within context of
> the site, I'm all for it. If there was an easy interface for developers to
> make the same functionality on their own sites, using their own
> dictionaries, without complex JS, that would be wonderful.
>
> -joshua
>
>
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