[mapguide-internals] RE: When do we need tooltips in MapGuide?

Zac Spitzer zac.spitzer at gmail.com
Wed Jul 6 04:07:46 EDT 2011


we have disabled them for some client sites, we found that
in some prehistoric browsers (IE, even IE8) the tooltips
were slow enough to create problems with the measure tool.

I'd be happy for the default to be change to be only during select mode,
as long as it's still configurable and a wiki page is created documenting
how to re-enable this.

2011/7/5 Ivan Miličević <Ivan.Milicevic at supranet.hr>:
> Hello Buddy,
>
> a while ago  we have disabled tooltips in our solutions. It is really unnecessary and just like you said - reduces server overload. It would be nice to have option "activate tooltip after 1sec in onmouseover event" or desable/enable tooltip.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Buddy Hu
> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 10:40 AM
> To: mapguide-internals at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [mapguide-internals] When do we need tooltips in MapGuide?
>
> Hi List,
>
> Currently in MapGuide, the client sends "QueryMapFeatures" request to get the tooltips every time we move the cursor in both Ajax viewer and Fusion Viewer.
> In my opinion, most of the requests are unnecessary and useless for the end-user. For example, when the user are doing measure/pan/zoom, the tooltips are redundant for the user.
> However, the client still sends "QueryMapFeatures" requests to the Server. If we remove these unnecessary requests, we can reduce server's overload.
>
> Now the question is, when do we need tooltips in MapGuide?
> IMO, only when the user wants to select something in the map, the tooltips are helpful. What do you think?
>
> Any comments are appreciated!
> -Buddy
>
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