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

[scribu]

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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