[Qgis-developer] Maptips in QGIS Web Client

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi all,

We are looking for a replacement for the current map tips in QGIS web
client. The ExtJS 3.x tooltips are sort of buggy and limited, the
OpenLayers popups are not too great either.

Do you know any flexible (and lightweight) JS or CSS based tooltip
libraries that you would recommend?

Necessary features:

* follows mouse when not clicked
* dynamic content
* show/hide
* click fixes tooltip at a given position - allows user to interactively
use tooltip content and click - should disable moving tooltips when open
* different styling - nice defaults

If you have good examples, example code, experiences or recommendations
regarding these maptips/tooltips - please let us know.

Alternatives I found are:

* ExtJS tooltips - currently used
* OpenLayers tooltips - Bernhard Ströbl is currently testing them
* QTIP2: http://craigsworks.com/projects/qtip2/
* Opentip: http://www.opentip.org/
* Tipped: http://projects.nickstakenburg.com/tipped

Can you recommend any of the above?

Thanks,
Andreas