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- gerrylazlo, on 06/22/2009, -0/+38You don't use An with User. Sorry to be that guy.
- Cerin, on 06/22/2009, -2/+22This is awesome! I already had 14 jQuery plugins for doing the exact same thing, but I was looking for one more!
- Cerin, on 06/22/2009, -0/+14Don't ever apologize for wanting people to be comprehensible.
- gerrylazlo, on 06/22/2009, -0/+12in a nutshell, if the first sound you make with the word is a vowel, you need 'an'. In this case the sound is a 'y' sound like in 'you'. This is not a vowel in this context. If 'user' was pronounced beginning with a 'u' vowel sound, as in 'uber', you would use the 'an'. This is not the case.
- sfallai, on 06/22/2009, -0/+9Somebody NEEDS to be that guy, always. The teaching of basic rules of grammar seems to be a lost art.
- DontHassleHoff, on 06/22/2009, -1/+5Lazy article. Why do some examples not have images and some are represented only by a logo? It seems that the author didn't bother to make screenshots if the plugin home page didn't provide them.
- AntoniusMaximus, on 06/22/2009, -0/+4Used properly, they can be really useful. However, I have stumbled upon too many sites that abuse tooltips by displaying innocently underlined links in their articles which pop out a whole load of tooltipped spam/ads as soon as one has the misfortune of hovering over them.
In fact, such abuse is so common that it disrupts my brain when I try to imagine a more creative use of tooltips, other than obvious "hints & tips". - GimliGlider, on 06/22/2009, -0/+4that's a great explanation
- DontHassleHoff, on 06/22/2009, -0/+3These are ad networks not actual tooltips. The site owner places the ad network javascript at the bottom of the page and after the page loads, the ad network selectively replaces words on the page with their advertisement popovers. There is nothing benevolent or helpful about these fake ad network 'tooltips'.
- boozedrinker, on 06/22/2009, -1/+4You kidding me? Digg comments are not the place for code.
- Hattrick, on 06/22/2009, -0/+3Hooked on phonics worked for me!
- doginss, on 06/23/2009, -0/+2I assert that there is, and that it did. Net = 0
- inactive, on 06/22/2009, -8/+10very useful list, thanks for posting!
- exclipy, on 06/23/2009, -0/+1AdHavoc, that depends on your accent. For me, I do always pronouce the H in historical so find it really annoying when I see the phrase "an historical" written down. What I find even more annoying is people who do pronounce the H, and still say "an historical").
- AdHavoc, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1@Atario: "h," being mostly a breathy exit of air (voiceless), has a tendency to disappear when spoken at the beginning of words, or in other positions. This change happened during the decline of the Roman Empire (think 300AD - 500AD) and was very common in Vulgar Latin (that is to say, the "common" tongue). Spanish, the Romance language closest to Latin, keeps h as a letter, but forgoes its pronunciation. English does as well, mostly from words taken from French (honour, etc.). In fact, many Old English words lost their initial h's after the Norman conquest of England. e.g. "able" used to be "hable."
In common speech, often saying "an istorical" flows better than "a historical" - TWallaceWD, on 06/22/2009, -1/+2Has your sense of humor gland been removed?
- Yawgmoth, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1yup, it's all about the sound of the following word. It just makes it flow better. It's something that can really be difficult for non-native speakers. For instance we say AN hour, even though hour starts with an h because it pronounced aʊər. Since the starting sound is vowel we use an, regardless of whether or not the spelling of the word starts with a vowel. English is one of the least phonetically written languages on the planet. That's what happens when German and French's bastard child is left on an island for thousands of years.
- MtheoryX, on 06/23/2009, -0/+1Looks to me like a REALLY ***** version of the "Coda Popup Bubbles" from this tutorial on jQuery for Designers:
http://jqueryfordesigners.com/coda-popup-bubbles/ - Atario, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1100% correct. I just wish people would honor this instead of saying "an historical _____".
- pinchduck, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1I find that jQuery works great if I'm making modifications to a legacy website. If I am doing new coding, though, and want a "web app" look and feel, then I go with ExtJS. Ext makes certain things, like tooltips, very easy.
- DontHassleHoff, on 06/22/2009, -2/+2Hmm that is a striking coincidence that a blindingly positive comment comes from another member that also can't get the usage of "an" straight.
- hawksfan03, on 06/22/2009, -1/+1my sarcasm detector is broken
- RollTehSuidice, on 06/27/2009, -0/+0Most of those can be done fluff-free with MooTools.
- TWallaceWD, on 06/22/2009, -4/+4This is a article I've been waiting for an long time.
- identityxcrysis, on 06/23/2009, -2/+2Bad grammar is not user friendly.
- zombo, on 06/22/2009, -5/+4Fifteen freaking plugins to create a sodding tooltip what a pile of ***** the web has become........................... yeah I know *****!!
- mquil, on 06/22/2009, -9/+8Nice collection, i have bookmarked it!
- Cerin, on 06/22/2009, -3/+2This is an great erticle. We luk it title specially.
- ataylor32, on 06/22/2009, -4/+2There's nothing wrong with the title. It doesn't break an single rule.
- moduc, on 06/22/2009, -4/+2thank you actually. But can you be clearer, why "an" is an exception? Is it just tradition/historical usage, or there is a general rule that applies to many more things like that? Is it because "user" doesn't really sound like a start of vowel?
I just glanced at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/540/01/
It appears that it depends on the sound of it, not how it's written. Also, it's what come right after the article, including adjective, not just the noun itself. - 32bytes, on 06/22/2009, -8/+6 JQuery + this
1 $(document).ready(function() {
2 $("#hover-top").hover(function() {
3 if ($(".hover", this).css("display") == "block") { return false; }
4 os = $(this).offset();
5 $("div.hover", this).css({
6 top: os.top+"px",
7 left: os.left+5+"px"
8 }).animate({
9 top: os.top-100+"px",
10 opacity: "show"
11 }, 750);
12 },
13 function() {
14 os = $(this).offset();
15 $(".hover", this).animate({top: os.top+"px", opacity: "hide"}, 500);
16 });
See it in action:
http://www.cherokee-project.com/doc/other_faq.html
Move the mouse over the text: "Can you improve this entry?" at the bottom of the page. - inactive, on 06/22/2009, -7/+0This is a great list. Thanks!
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