Useful Web Technology
I was reading an article on the www.emedicine.com web site that I had arrived at from an internet search. I had never been to www.emedicine.com before. There was all kinds of the usual medical jargon and physiology gobbledegook strewn about the article, and I was having a hard time following it all, so I was using my mouse to highlight words as I was reading them.
And that's when I discovered that whenever I highlighted anything on the page, a new window would pop up with search results from Stedman's Medical Dictionary for the word(s) that I had highlighted, including definitions (where definitions were found) and other articles that mention the highlighted word(s).
Cool technology. I didn't even have to know the web site did that. and the web site didn't explain (and didn't have to explain) that it could do that. And it worked for all words - not just specially linked words, or words that were underlined, etc. I didn't have to click on the word, or on a link. I just highlighted any word or combination of words I wanted.
Comments
It's a nice bit of HTML:
<span title="this is the hover">This is the text you want the hover over</span>
Posted by David Adam Edelstein on October 10, 2004 10:22 AM.I should mention that I've actually implemented a span class=help on my site that
1) gives the word a dotted underline
2) changes the curser to a question mark over the word
those are left as an excercise for the student :-)
Posted by David Adam Edelstein on October 10, 2004 11:03 AM."an excercise for the student" - That's where you view source and save it off of Dave's site. Then the real reverse engineering begins...
Posted by BlueNiner on October 12, 2004 9:19 PM.