Hi folks
My app makes extensive use of mouseover "tooltips", sometimes using a plugin, other times using the "title" tag directly. On busy pages this can be a very effective way to include useful extra information which is only visible when needed.
Of course, all of this useful information is inaccessible on touch screens, or non-mouse interfaces in general, along with right-click menus, I guess.
I would be grateful if anyone could advise whether there is an emerging standard or accepted technique to emulate mouseover events in a touch UI, which could realistically be implemented across the board for an app with clever use of templates and javascript or other arcane topics?
It would be a shame to have to adopt an entirely different approach which reduces functionality on a PC simply to maintain compatibility with the capabilities of other devices.
Regards
Chris