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yatt
May 13th, 2007, 09:11 PM
From the comic xkcd (http://xkcd.com/). On their about page, they answered a question about tooltips for their images not showing up in full (each comic has a tooltip with a comment related to the comic). Anyways, where was the author's solution to the problem:


Why can't I read the whole comic mouseover text in Firefox?

They can be read with extensions like Long Titles (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1715/). This is a bug in Firefox, Mozilla Bug #45375 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45375). It has been outstanding for many years now. Both Ryan North (Dinosaur Comics) and I have contacted the developers to let them know how many of our readers it affects and to see if there's anything we can do to help with a fix (offering money or programmers). They repeatedly told us to go away and/or shut up, with some developers saying they'd withold a fix because we were complaining. I've of course learned to be way more cautious about offering to help out with an open-source project. You may want to check out Opera (http://www.opera.com/) or Internet Explorer (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx).

Note: It looks like this has been fixed in SeaMonkey. I suppose eventually the fix will migrate over to Firefox.

Get an extension or get a different browser, because the developers will not fix it. Did anyone here think that they would be so hostile after being offered money and/or manpower?

PartisanEntity
May 13th, 2007, 09:15 PM
This is only one side to the story, naturally I do not deny that there are many rude people out there regardless of where they work. But we have no idea whether this person is exaggerating, and how we he offered to help (was he perhaps being sarcastic when he contacted them? was he complaining often? etc..)

mech7
May 13th, 2007, 09:24 PM
The tooltip works fine here.. they where probably just doing it wrong IE does it wrong it uses the alt tag instead of the title tag as a proper browser would do ;)

Polygon
May 13th, 2007, 09:29 PM
tool tips work fine for me in firefox 2.0.0.3

and before there was an extension that provided tool tip functionality, and also multi like tool tips... but i forget the name at the moment

FuturePilot
May 13th, 2007, 09:51 PM
The Firefox 1.5.x.x tool tips were badly broken. Starting with 2.0 they worked fine for me.

banjobacon
May 13th, 2007, 11:10 PM
I fear this is a case of people saying, "Works for me!" without understanding what the problem is. Pardon me if this is not the case.

To all those who say it works fine, what does the tooltip say on this strip (http://xkcd.com/c162.html) when you view it in Firefox?

This is what it should be visible:

With reasonable assumptions about latitude and body shape, how much time might she gain them? Note: whatever the answer, sunrise always comes too soon. (Also, is it worth it if she throws up?)

This is what Firefox 2.0.0.3 displays:

With reasonable assumptions about latitude and body shape, how much ti...

EDIT: I use Epiphany, though, which work properly in this case.

Rhapsody
May 13th, 2007, 11:28 PM
To all those who say it works fine, what does the tooltip say on this strip (http://xkcd.com/c162.html) when you view it in Firefox?

It doesn't work in Firefox 2.0.0.3 (without the Long Titles extension), but it's fine in Gran Paradiso 3.0 alpha 4, and Firefox 2.0.0.3 with the Long Titles extension. So it seems that this problem will be solved with Firefox 3.0, which should be available in about 6 months, and you can use Long Titles until then.