122104 - Disabling tooltips interferes with ABBR and ACRONYM tags

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 64232

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Zack Weinberg (:zwol)]

If you have tooltips disabled in Preferences, the ABBR and ACRONYM tags are
still rendered with a dotted line underneath, and the cursor changes to
an arrow-with-question-mark when hovered over the text, but nothing else
happens.  The only way for the user to see the acronym's expansion is to
right-click and select Properties, which is not obvious.

Suggested fixes:

1) Display tooltips for ABBR and ACRONYM irrespective of the preference.
2) If tooltips are disabled, display the title of an ABBR or ACRONYM in the
   status bar instead of a tooltip.
3) Allow the user to choose between 1 and 2 with a separate preference.

Comment 1

[Peter Trudelle]

->hewitt

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 64232, "Separate pref for chrome tooltips".  If that bug is fixed 
by changing the pref to only affect chrome tooltips (and not adding a pref for 
content tooltips), this bug won't have to be fixed.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 64232 ***

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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