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Re: Where's the beginning? (was RE: When to Spell Out Acronyms)

Subject: Re: Where's the beginning? (was RE: When to Spell Out Acronyms)
From: Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>
To: David Castro <thejavaguy -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:47:15 -0800

David Castro wrote:

On 11/21/06, Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com> wrote:
I've used Geoff's suggestion of using a glossary to keep the clutter from
taking over a Help page. Linking every acronym to a definition page is
acceptable for smaller sites, or sites without a lot of acronyms, but the
glossary may be the only answer for larger sites stuff with them.

Let me throw an idea out there, thought it may not be directly
supported by the HATs. What about providing alt text for acronyms
(using the TITLE attribute in a null link)? The user can float over
the acronym to have the spelled out version displayed in fly-over
text.


Yes, this is the solution. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it called a popup in HTMLHelp (Windows HAT)? Sorry for the speculation but I haven't authored help in so long I'm noit sure I could do it anymore. Queue the flood of phone and email requests for help authoring opp'ys.

Ned Bedinger
doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com

I've created a proof of concept to illustrate my idea, which you can
see here: http://www.davidcastro.com/floatoverpoc.html

What do y'all think of that idea? Feasible? Not obvious enough?


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References:
Where's the beginning? (was RE: When to Spell Out Acronyms): From: mlist
Re: Where's the beginning? (was RE: When to Spell Out Acronyms): From: Al Geist
Re: Where's the beginning? (was RE: When to Spell Out Acronyms): From: David Castro

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