60245 - no tooltips for "title" attribute in sidebar

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Sidebar, defect, P3)

Description

[Andreas M. "Clarence" Schneider]

In the sidebar no tooltips are shown for HTML elements with "title" attribute.

Example:

<P title="this is a title">test</P>

Comment 1

[Håkan Waara]

Why would one want to use "title" in combination with the P tag?

Comment 2

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Which HTML elements you do or do not use the `title' attribute for is really 
beside the point ...

The point is that anything you can do with elements in an ordinary Web page, you 
should be able to do with the same elements in a Web-like sidebar panel. And that 
includes tooltips. CCing Blake, who's been doing a lot of this already, and 
Robert, who did the `title' tooltips in the first place.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Should be able to get tooltips in the sidebar

Comment 4

[shrirang khanzode]

spam : changing qa to sujay (New Sidebar QA)

Comment 5

[Blake Ross]

This will all be fixed soon when <browser/> lands.  Reassigning to me.

Comment 6

[Andreas M. "Clarence" Schneider]

*** Bug 80822 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[/\/\arcio Galli]

win98 too..Changing OS to all..

and adding Kevin to cc..tooltips are very important for sidebar Tabs there is no 
too much space to use.   

Comment 8

[Blake Ross]

--> matt

Comment 9

[/\/\arcio Galli]

Adding Fabricio and Roger, 

this affects Major Sidebar Tab producers.  Sidebar tabs like Fedex and others in
the world are using tooltips. Tooltips in the Sidebar tab is amazing because the
visual area is small.

Comment 10

[Cathleen]

could you please provide a test case?

Comment 11

[Samir Gehani]

Taking for mozilla0.9.9.

Comment 12

[Samir Gehani]

Can someone provide a link to the FedEx tab?

Comment 13

[Roger C. Soares]

The fedex tab is at http://www.fedex.com/us/tracking/?template_type=net6tab

It doesn't seem they use a tooltip there though. Another tab to check tooltips
is the note-it tab, it has an image with a tooltip on the right top side of the
tab: http://livesidebar.com/lsbtabs.html

Comment 14

[Alex Bishop]

The FedEx tab is available in the Netbusiness category of the Customize Sidebar
dialogue. The actual URL is http://www.fedex.com/us/tracking/?template_type=net6tab.

Comment 15

[Alex Bishop]

Grrr... beaten to it!

Comment 16

[Samir Gehani]

Sidebar triage team: over to Layout for a look.  Nominating for nsbeta1.

Comment 17

[karnaze (gone)]

-->XP Apps.

Comment 18

[Peter Trudelle]

cc karnaze.  Chris: we asked for a look, not a bounce. ;-)  This is web content,
which isn't our area.  Who should get this?

Comment 19

[Blake Ross]

We just have to use FillInHTMLTooltip() in the sidebar, I think.

Comment 20

[Blake Ross]

I would test my patch but attempts at getting my sidebar to show up in my debug
build are failing.  Samir, any idea?

Comment 21

[Blake Ross]

Attachment: patch

Comment 22

[Blake Ross]

-> me

uncc'ing karnaze now that we know it's not a layout issue.

samir, can I get an r=?

Comment 23

[Samir Gehani]

Comment on attachment 67861 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

r=sgehani  Cool.  Thanks.

Comment 24

[Blake Ross]

fixed.

Comment 25

[Blake Ross]

reopening; I backed this patch out.

Comment 26

[Blake Ross]

back to samir for now.

Comment 27

[Peter Trudelle]

->sidebar

Comment 28

[Peter Trudelle]

nsbeta1- per ADT triage team

Comment 29

[rdonkin]

This also affects sidebars at http://twiki.org/ - Internet Explorer's sidebar
does handle tooltips, so unfortunately at the moment the IE version of the TWiki
sidebar is better.

See http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/MozillaSidebar#Get_sidebars_now_ to test
a TWiki sidebar, and view source of
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/WebSidebar?skin=plain to see the title
attributes.  The IE5 sidebar is at
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/InternetExplorerSidebar if you're interested.

A possibly related issue is that the visited links don't change colour in the
sidebar, though they do work when the sidebar page is viewed in the main window.

Comment 30

[Samir Gehani]

Blake,
I thought removing the class="iframe-panel" fixed this.  I don't see the
titletips on a current mozilla trunk build in either skin (Linux; haven't tried
Win32).  Any ideas?

Comment 31

[Blake Ross]

Just switching to <browser> won't fix this because the tooltip behavior isn't
yet encapsulated into <browser>. It should be, later on (it's not a hard fix at
all).

Comment 32

[Christopher Clay]

This is also quite important for the sidebar I created for my counter service
(See http://textcounter.org/admin/sidebar.php?id=8 for a demo), I would really
appreciate a fix.

Comment 33

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 180421 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 34

[Ray A. Akey]

Hi, I filed bug #100421, which was a duplicate of this one but had the wrong 
URL for the testcase.

I have upgraded to the latest win32 talkback release (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; 
Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910) and still sidebar tooltips are 
not working.

See bug #100421 but use the following url instead of the one noted:

http://www.codemain.com/tabs/freshmeat_tab_codemain.php

Comment 35

[Ray A. Akey]

My bad.  The strikeout made the bug ID look like 100421, but it is #180421.

Comment 36

[[e-mail]]

Attachment: Updated for bitrot

Comment 37

[[e-mail]]

Attachment: Fixed patch

The original patch didn't work in the first place,
the sidebar wouldn't have hidden properly.

Comment 38

[jag (Peter Annema)]

Comment on attachment 110945 [details] [diff] [review]
Fixed patch

sr=jag

Comment 39

[Zbynek Winkler]

While testing the http://www.codemain.com/tabs/freshmeat_tab_codemain.php I've
found out that the tooltips are not shown even in the browser. I am using
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

Comment 40

[[e-mail]]

Comment on attachment 110945 [details] [diff] [review]
Fixed patch

Note: some nearby lines have changed so you might have to manually apply the
patch.

Comment 41

[Zbynek Winkler]

Can someone please confirm #39 - no tooltips for title tags in regular page with
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130?

Comment 42

[matt wilkie]

Can the patch be applied by endusers? I couldn't find the file
"sidebarOverlay.xul" on my hard drive.

Comment 43

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

related to bug 90642 ?
"Tooltip with explanation is not shown for <abbr> in attachment"

Comment 44

[[e-mail]]

The file sidebarOverlay.xul is stored in comm.jar (a zip archive)

Comment 45

[[e-mail]]

Comment on attachment 110945 [details] [diff] [review]
Fixed patch

Playing musical reviewers.

Comment 46

[[e-mail]]

/me must remember to check these in :-)

Comment 47

[[e-mail]]

Attachment: Updated for bitrot

For completeness, this is the patch as checked in.

Comment 48

[[e-mail]]

Fix checked in.