iGoogle tooltip in Internet Explorer 7Other personalized homepages like Netvibes and My Yahoo show a snippet from the post in a custom overlay and open a reader to display the full content. Loading multiple instances of the Google Reader gadget for different folders is a good alternative for iGoogle's feed modules, especially if you subscribe to many feeds.
{ Thanks, Stephen. }
My iGoogle gadget looks exactly like this
ReplyDeletehttp://www.google.com/ig/adde?moduleurl=www.google.com/ig/modules/reader.xml
and no tooltips are shown. I would really like it to look like in the screenshot with tooltips and expansion option, how can achieve it?
I wish they'd optionally allow you to display an excerpt from the RSS item beneath the title (like netvibes).
ReplyDeleteThe lack of that is keeping me from leaving Netvibes.
http://my.life.com does it much better. And you can set up to 4 columns. This is important since we all have panoramic displays.
ReplyDeletebrad: Good idea, I'm going to create a greasemonkey script to do what you describe; it should be straightforward now that they've put the snippet in the title attribute. I'll post it here when it's ready.
ReplyDeletetolep: You can now have 4 column layouts in iGoogle (edit a tab). It looks like this option might only appear if you are using a widescreen display.
Ionut Alex Chitu: do you know if there is any way to make Firefox display the tooltips for a longer duration? I like this addition to iGoogle, but the tooltip invariably disappears before I can read more than a sentence or two.
@vaseo:
ReplyDeleteThis post isn't about the Google Reader gadget. I only mentioned it as an alternative to iGoogle's feed gadgets.
@joelpt:
You're right, this is yet another reason why Google should use something else to display tooltips. Here's what w3.org has to say:
"The tool tip in some common user agents disappears after a short period of time (approximately 5 seconds). This can cause difficulty accessing title attribute content for those users who can use a mouse but have fine motor skill impairment, and may result in difficulties for users who need more time to read the tool tip."