disabling tooltips

[Jeff]

I'd like to disable the enhanced tooltips that show by default.

Where can I do this? I tried setting "show" to "false" in the jQuery UI JS file, but that had no effect. Thanks for any help.

[Mike Hagedon]

Hi Jeff,

In 1.0-beta4, take a look at this line: https://github.com/ualibraries/Guide-on-the-Side/blob/master/app/webroot/js/tutorials/view_tutorial_only.js#L222

I wonder if this should be configurable? Are the tooltips causing problems?

Thanks,

Mike

[Jeff]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the pointer to that file. I tried commenting out those lines, but the tooltips remained. I also tried changing the lines to e.g.

$('a.prev').tooltip('disabled', true );

but the fancy tooltip behavior persisted. (I was sure to clear cache when testing this.) So I wonder if I'm missing something...

As for the rationale, I haven't tested in GoTS, but with another project where I added those jQuery UI tooltips, users found them irritating and unhelpful, so I ended up removing them. (I find them irritating as well.) I think probably you'd want to verify that this sort of enhancement is needed--that users have trouble understanding the navigational element without a big tooltip--before adding it.

-Jeff

[Jeff]

I'd still love to be able to disable tool tips. I recently was using a tutorial on an iPad and found that they actually interfered with the navigation--the "next" tooltip would overlay the arrow and make it unclickable.

[Mike Hagedon]

Hi Jeff,

Sorry, I'm slow to respond, but I've made an issue for this: https://github.com/ualibraries/Guide-on-the-Side/issues/151

Mike