On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 06:10:44PM -0700, Silvio Levy wrote:
> 
> The web page I most often use at work has tooltip information under
> certain bits of text, which conkeror doesn't display. A minimal
> example file that shows the problem is this:
> 
> <html>
> <span title="Accepted on 16 Jan 2010">090422-Xia</span>
> </html>
> 
> I see in the [email protected] archives that "Conkeror doesn't do
> tooltips" (Nick Zigarovich, 21 Jan 2009) but I'm wondering why.  
> Is the syntax above not kosher?  Is it too difficult to support?  
> Do I just not have the right options set? Or something else?


Conkeror has a mode called overlink-mode which allows you do dislay this
kind of information in the minibuffer message area when hovering the mouse
over the dom.  For an example configuration that will display titles, see:

 http://retroj.net/git/conkerorrc/overlink.js

To your more general question of why Conkeror doesn't have tooltips, the
answer is that we take it as a prime directive that the mouse should
always be a secondary interface to the keyboard.  Everything that Conkeror
does should be doable with the keyboard.  Compromise on this point and we
would lose our way and our reason for being.

In fact I have written a keyboard-driven tooltips module in an
experimental branch I am working on.  It's called 'annotate', and it's
described here: http://bugs.conkeror.org/issue169

-- 
John Foerch
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