Re: [Proto-Scripty] Help system

2013-05-30 Thread Jason Westbrook
If you want to use tooltips or popovers you could use the PrototypeJS Twitter BootStrap tooltips or popovers https://github.com/jwestbrook/bootstrap-prototype Jason Westbrook | T: 313-799-3770 | jwestbr...@gmail.com On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote: > I think you could m

Re: [Proto-Scripty] Help system

2013-05-30 Thread Walter Lee Davis
I think you could make the whole thing pretty simply. Rather than creating a separate handler (with each()) for each .help element, you could wrap the entire thing in one "on" handler, which you would not need to customize per page or worry about dom:loaded or anything: document.on('click', '.h

Re: [Proto-Scripty] Help system

2013-05-30 Thread Phil Petree
Certainly seems like it should be easy... I guess that's why I was kinda surprised to not see where anyone else had put one together... certainly was nothing on scripteka... could add some serious value to some sites. I'll play around with it on Sunday and see what I can cobble together... of cour

Re: [Proto-Scripty] Help system

2013-05-30 Thread Walter Lee Davis
This would be pretty easy to do. Prototype gives you lots of tools to make this possible, the bulk of this effort would probably go into the CSS to style your tooltips. On May 30, 2013, at 11:30 AM, Phil Petree wrote: > Has anyone developed an inline help system? Am I barking up the wrong tree

[Proto-Scripty] Help system

2013-05-30 Thread Phil Petree
Has anyone developed an inline help system? Am I barking up the wrong tree or is there an easier way to do this? Ideally we could just drop the div in anywhere we wanted, the help icon would always float to the right of the label/input and when the user clicked the help icon we'd get a context se