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Tipped - The Javascript Tooltip Framework

28 points by staaky 16y ago

krosaen 16y ago
pretty slick. a free plugin with not quite as many bells and whistles: http://code.drewwilson.com/entry/tiptip-jquery-plugin http://code.drewwilson.com/entry/tiptip-jquery-plugin
Charuru 16y ago
What puts this over any of the myriad jquery tooltips like qtip and jquery tools tooltip? Also there's an upcoming jquery ui tooltip widget.
- fourstar 16y ago
  I think it's trying to be the one-stop-shop for tooltips, wheras jQuery is HUGE with a library of other features. I like it.
- nischalshetty 16y ago
  This one seems to have a lot of features and is pretty!
olalonde 16y ago
Is there really a market for closed source Javascript libraries?
- nischalshetty 16y ago
  There is! Actually over the internet there is a market for everything. And this tooltip thingy is so useful. I wouldn't go the extra mile creating a tooltip for my site but wouldn't hesitate to pay for one that looks and works awesome! Increases the beauty quotient of a site.
  - webwright 16y ago
    Your account has exactly the karma from your comments on this post and no more. Any chance you have some relationship with the author?
    - deleted 16y ago
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    - nischalshetty 16y ago
      I don't comment much out here but have been an "active" HN user from a long time. By active I mean I religiously check all the links shared on HN everyday, it makes me smarter(I was pretty sure I was dumb until HN happened to me!). I did not write anything offending. I guess being critical is just not me. I liked what I saw and I had some time on my hands so figured could write something good about a script that's been so nicely done. I guess you guys are allowed to downvote, my karma was 3 and you've now made it -1. That's ok, I only do good things in life, pretty confident good things would happen to me too :) You can find me on twitter - http://twitter.com/NischalShetty http://twitter.com/NischalShetty I have a twitter app http://justunfollow.com http://justunfollow.com which has 150,000 users, I guess fake accounts can't do that :) P.S. Do you really think a guy who's done such a wonderful javascript plugin would try to leave fake comments? I refuse to believe that!
      - larrywright 16y ago
        > P.S. Do you really think a guy who's done such a wonderful javascript plugin would try to leave fake comments? I refuse to believe that! Well, he did submit his commercial product as a story, so... yeah. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice plugin. But there are a lot of really nice jQuery tooltip plugins, and I don't see how this one is significantly better than the others.
        nischalshetty 16y ago
        Most of the UI in the samples I saw of this plugin seem good to go as is, I might not need to customize it due to the many options available. I'm not undermining any of the free plugins(I use a lot of free plugins and if not for them I would never have been able to build anything useful). I'm sorry did not know commercial projects are not to be submitted here. Making money off free apps is so much more difficult. Charging a fee sometimes helps. Completely my point of view, though I may be wrong.
gawker 16y ago
Looks pretty neat!
nischalshetty 16y ago
This is awesome! I've tried a lot of free jquery tooltip plugins but they never quite fit the bill and I do not have time or motivation to build one myself! Can't you like give HNers some discount on the licences?
m0shen 16y ago
The BeautyTips (http://www.lullabot.com/files/bt/bt-latest/DEMO/index.html http://www.lullabot.com/files/bt/bt-latest/DEMO/index.html) jQuery plugin has most of these features and is quite easy to work with.
julian37 16y ago
This is spam. The submitter is the author/owner of the software product in question, which is not free.
- wrs 16y ago
  Am I misreading the HN guidelines? People submit their own projects all the time, and quite a few of them are money-making operations. The whole site is run by a VC firm, for gosh sakes. I could understand "this isn't a good or interesting piece of code", but "this is a commercial piece of code" seems like the wrong thing to complain about.
cdmoyer 16y ago
Doesn't seem to work in chrome. Sort of a non-starter. Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid regular expression: /bridge([\w\d-_.]+)?\.js(.*)/: Invalid character range spinners.js:17 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'extend' of undefined projects.nickstakenburg.com:1 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'extend' of undefined

28 points by staaky 16y ago

pretty slick. a free plugin with not quite as many bells and whistles: http://code.drewwilson.com/entry/tiptip-jquery-plugin http://code.drewwilson.com/entry/tiptip-jquery-plugin

Charuru 16y ago

What puts this over any of the myriad jquery tooltips like qtip and jquery tools tooltip? Also there's an upcoming jquery ui tooltip widget.

fourstar 16y ago
I think it's trying to be the one-stop-shop for tooltips, wheras jQuery is HUGE with a library of other features. I like it.
nischalshetty 16y ago
This one seems to have a lot of features and is pretty!

olalonde 16y ago

Is there really a market for closed source Javascript libraries?

nischalshetty 16y ago
There is! Actually over the internet there is a market for everything. And this tooltip thingy is so useful. I wouldn't go the extra mile creating a tooltip for my site but wouldn't hesitate to pay for one that looks and works awesome! Increases the beauty quotient of a site.
- webwright 16y ago
  Your account has exactly the karma from your comments on this post and no more. Any chance you have some relationship with the author?
  - deleted 16y ago
    [deleted]
  - nischalshetty 16y ago
    I don't comment much out here but have been an "active" HN user from a long time. By active I mean I religiously check all the links shared on HN everyday, it makes me smarter(I was pretty sure I was dumb until HN happened to me!). I did not write anything offending. I guess being critical is just not me. I liked what I saw and I had some time on my hands so figured could write something good about a script that's been so nicely done. I guess you guys are allowed to downvote, my karma was 3 and you've now made it -1. That's ok, I only do good things in life, pretty confident good things would happen to me too :) You can find me on twitter - http://twitter.com/NischalShetty http://twitter.com/NischalShetty I have a twitter app http://justunfollow.com http://justunfollow.com which has 150,000 users, I guess fake accounts can't do that :) P.S. Do you really think a guy who's done such a wonderful javascript plugin would try to leave fake comments? I refuse to believe that!
    - larrywright 16y ago
      > P.S. Do you really think a guy who's done such a wonderful javascript plugin would try to leave fake comments? I refuse to believe that! Well, he did submit his commercial product as a story, so... yeah. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice plugin. But there are a lot of really nice jQuery tooltip plugins, and I don't see how this one is significantly better than the others.
      - nischalshetty 16y ago
        Most of the UI in the samples I saw of this plugin seem good to go as is, I might not need to customize it due to the many options available. I'm not undermining any of the free plugins(I use a lot of free plugins and if not for them I would never have been able to build anything useful). I'm sorry did not know commercial projects are not to be submitted here. Making money off free apps is so much more difficult. Charging a fee sometimes helps. Completely my point of view, though I may be wrong.

gawker 16y ago

Looks pretty neat!

nischalshetty 16y ago

This is awesome! I've tried a lot of free jquery tooltip plugins but they never quite fit the bill and I do not have time or motivation to build one myself! Can't you like give HNers some discount on the licences?

m0shen 16y ago

The BeautyTips (http://www.lullabot.com/files/bt/bt-latest/DEMO/index.html http://www.lullabot.com/files/bt/bt-latest/DEMO/index.html) jQuery plugin has most of these features and is quite easy to work with.

julian37 16y ago

This is spam. The submitter is the author/owner of the software product in question, which is not free.

wrs 16y ago
Am I misreading the HN guidelines? People submit their own projects all the time, and quite a few of them are money-making operations. The whole site is run by a VC firm, for gosh sakes. I could understand "this isn't a good or interesting piece of code", but "this is a commercial piece of code" seems like the wrong thing to complain about.

cdmoyer 16y ago

Doesn't seem to work in chrome. Sort of a non-starter. Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid regular expression: /bridge([\w\d-_.]+)?\.js(.*)/: Invalid character range spinners.js:17 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'extend' of undefined projects.nickstakenburg.com:1 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'extend' of undefined