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- noun Plural form of
tooltip .
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Examples
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I'm also using the HoverExtender to provide detail view popups (aka tooltips but with more information).
ASP.NET Forums arystrom 2009
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Players who don't like these 'tooltips' can turn them off by going to
PokerStars Poker Blog Simon Young 2010
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Added preference for Snow Leopard to set the delay before applications will display help tags ( "tooltips").
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Style in the linguistic sense is especially applicable to longer texts, such as tooltips in user interfaces, and passages in documentation.
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Style in the linguistic sense is especially applicable to longer texts, such as tooltips in user interfaces, and passages in documentation.
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Added preference for Snow Leopard to set the delay before applications will display help tags ( "tooltips").
MacUpdate - Mac OS X 2010
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Style in the linguistic sense is especially applicable to longer texts, such as tooltips in user interfaces, and passages in documentation.
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Most desktop software packages that abandon text labels for just the bare icons - it's all very well having 'tooltips' that appear when you hover the mouse over an icon, but if you have to do it almost every time then there's a net loss of efficiency.
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Edge cases such as tooltips encourage user interactivity and data exploration and you can re-size the charts.
doggdot.us 2009
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Update: If you can't read the "tooltips", you can find the answers here.
MoneyBlogNetwork 2008
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