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Dave Stewart schrieb:

Hey Jorn,
Great idea!
If you're going to offer that level of customisation, I'd probably
make even more decisions with the default options.
I'd start by having all the necessary CSS for the basic tooltip inline
with the markup, as it took me a good 15 minutes to work out that I
needed a stylesheet to make the damn things show when I first tried
tooltip!
I'm sure this trips up a lot of people.
So, initial markup would be:<div style="position:absolute; z-index:
1000; background-color:#666; color:#fff; padding:5px"> ...head, body,
etc </div>
Then, definitely, the next level would be to have the option to
provide your own template.
I love how tooltip shows me the image and the url. I didn't check how
you implemented that, but it's really nice that it just works out of
the box.
Would this functionality be provided with template tags (%img%) or
something?
I'm sure you have the best bases covered, anyway :)
By the way, thanks for the comment about Form Builder. I'm on a PHP
job at the mo, but I'm going to re-investigate and finish off with
better instructions at some point. It's really been saving my ass at
the mo!
Hope all's good with you,
Dave

Dave Stewart schrieb:

> Putting a lot of inline-styles in there makes it difficult to overwrite
> them from within your stylesheet. In the long run, you want to define
> your own styles anyway, therefore I'm not convinced that this would be
> an actual improvement.
Hmmph!! You got *me* split now! But you're right, "in the long run"
you would add your own stylesheet.
However, I still feel that jQuery plugins should just work "naked",
and feel a need to be able to write:
$('div').tooltip()
And see it do its thing. Then once you figure it's upgradable, maybe
allow custom styles with:
$('div').tooltip({stylesheet:true})
I guess it's going to feel kinda dirty either way.
Just my 2p worth, anyway. Keep up the great work!

Dave Stewart schrieb: