[wp-hackers] Why were the image tooltips removed?

[Bryan Harley]

Scribu -   From the standpoint of usability, I think we at least need
descriptive text need to each media button.


On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:55 AM, scribu <scribu at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > > The "pretty" tooltips he's talking about were commented out of
> common.js
> > > here:
> > > http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/8785
> > >
> > > They were a big deal in 2.5:
> > > http://planetozh.com/blog/2008/04/how-to-use-wordpress-25-tooltips/
> > >
> > > I do not know why they were removed. Can't figure it out.
> > >
> > > -Otto
> >
>
> Probably removed due to browser compatibility.
>
> They look like bloat to me, so I say "Good riddance".
>
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