Site Feature Changes

**Man1c M0g** · 04-03-2005

Well, its spent a few days in beta, and so far i've not received torrents of moans (or, indeed, a single complaint!), so I've decided to take my Tooltips system out of beta. For the uninitiated, this system consists of several javascript applications that transform dozens of keyword phrases into moveover information points. Just load up a tutorial (example) and place your mouse over a green link for a demonstration. Its basic of course, but very useful for beginners and will probably be expanded in future to offer a vauable index of easily-found core resources. So far it only supports Opera/IE/Netscape browsers and the Photoshop/Illustrator-based tutorials section, but i'm working right now to add firefox to the list of supported browsers too...

As you may have also noticed, I have revamped the PHP tutorials index and given it a much cleaner and easier-to-use format. This is part of a site-wide revamp i'm going to implement over the next few weeks to prepare us for Biorust v4 (I've decided to do the backend coding before the new design - its just simpler that way). Please excuse any site screwiness in this time. I don't leave the site with errors for long, though, so just wait a minute and refresh the page in your browser if you have any issues... ;-)

scrowler · 04-03-2005

much better mog

Order · 04-03-2005

Hip Hip Hurrah... M0g is at it again!

Lexiblue · 04-04-2005

I like the tooltips! I guess I will have to switch back to Opera. (Been using Firefox.)
I like how things never get stagnant and just get better around here. Kudos to you M0g.

Lexi

MrProtoman · 04-13-2005

I'm not seeing anything new added to the tutorials. I even went through the source code to make sure I wasn't missing it, but there isn't any entires for the tooltips. Is there a specific tutorial/paragraph that has one so I can at least see what you're talking about?

**Man1c M0g** · 04-13-2005

Well, the system is designed so that everything is excluded if your browser does not support our tooltips system. My advice is to try a different browser - nearly all PS tutorials contain at least one very obvious tooltip...

Order · 04-13-2005

Is their any reason as to why not all browsers are supported. Is this a javascript trick, if so, such a system could be made to work on the serverside, and forsake the lacking browsers of the world.

**Man1c M0g** · 04-13-2005

Hey, if you like i'm quite happy for you to take a peek at the Javascript i'm using and suggest possible improvements...

Order · 04-14-2005

I am not one for javascript, but sure, let me know how you want me to peek at it..

**Man1c M0g** · 04-14-2005

Here you go then:

Code:

Then put this into the body tag of the page:

Code:

onmousemove="overhere()"

Order · 04-14-2005

Alrighty then, lost at the first statement, when I get a chance within a few days, I can fiddle with it. Need to do some research on what browsers support what, since that looks like only IE and Netscape...

MrProtoman · 04-17-2005

Opera 7.54u2 and Firefox 1.0.2 both show nothing. If I switch Opera to identify as IE 6 they work, but I have it set to identify as Opera for browser checking/recording logs.

*The Eagle* · 04-18-2005

Code:

onload="loadfunc(); window.onmousemove = overhere;" onmousemove="overhere();"

So far I got it to work with IE6, Firefox and

Konqueror. The original script looks like it was written 10 years ago and uses outdated methods, which are (thankfully) not supported in Firefox and modern Gecko releases.

ConceptualMind · 04-18-2005

Wow thanks! That definetely deserves a +Rep.

scrowler · 04-18-2005

i was going to rep+ him but i had already for one of the other threads so i couldnt