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Suzette Seveny
Markham, Ontario, Canada
sseveny -at- petvalu -dot- com or suzette -at- yesic -dot- com
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DISCLAIMER:
Any opinions expressed are MY opinions.
Feel free to have your own.
Let's agree to disagree
But Please - Don't Flame Me.
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --
Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
On Friday, December 03, 1999 2:10 PM, Beth Kane
[SMTP:bethkane -at- tcisolutions -dot- com] wrote:
> Our applications have lots of "hover help," wherein holding your cursor over
> something in the interface causes a line of text to appear in a box,
> explaining that item. The help text disappears within about 3 seconds. The
> previous writer of the docs I'm working on referred to it as "fly-over
> hints." I've heard others casually refer to it as hover help. I don't think
> either of those terms is correct.
>
