Re: mouseover. Is it a word?

Subject: Re: mouseover. Is it a word?
From: David Thompson <David -dot- Thompson -at- REALVIZ -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:35:45 +0200

Yeah just like the general audience would have thought "email me" was damn
weird a few years ago.


"Onwards, onwards rode the 600"


-----Original Message-----
From: Johndan Johnson-Eilola <johndan -at- PURDUE -dot- EDU>
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU <TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU>
Date: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: mouseover. Is it a word?


>"Mouseover" is (among other things) a term in javascript (used to
>detect when the mouse is over a specific item on the screen); I think
>it was also a similarly function term in HyperTalk, HyperCard's
>scripting language. So you might use the term in talking to other
>tech writers or website designers, but a general audience would
>probably think it sounded odd.
>
>- Johndan
>
>At 9:47 AM +0000 6/22/99, Svi Ben-Elya wrote:
>>The mouse hovers over the text.
>>
>>On 6/21/99 9:08:55 PM Chris Hamilton wrote:
>> >
>> >Do you mouse over something to make associated text appear? Do you mouse
>> >over it? Or do you do something else to it. Mouseover seems to be the
>> >slang, but is it the phrase that a happening technical writer would use?
>> >
>> >Thanks.
>> >
>> >Chris
>> >--
>> >Chris Hamilton
>> >Technical Writer
>> >Tampa, FL
>> >caxdj -at- earthlink -dot- net
>> >
>>
>>
>>____________________________________
>>Svi Ben-Elya
>>svib -at- aks -dot- com
>>chase -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il
>>_____________________________________
>
>
>- Johndan Johnson-Eilola
> Director of Professional Writing
> Department of English voice: 765.494.3772
> Purdue University <mailto:johndan -at- purdue -dot- edu>
> West Lafayette, IN 47907-1356 <http://tempest.english.purdue.edu>
>
>
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