Take a list of common acronyms like this, and create an extension similar to the acronym tag so that a user can put their mouse over an acronym and get the actual meaning of it.
Should work for html, and plain text emails.
Would be quite useful.
Take a list of common acronyms like this, and create an extension similar to the acronym tag so that a user can put their mouse over an acronym and get the actual meaning of it.
Should work for html, and plain text emails.
Would be quite useful.
This sounds like the popup definitions that appeared in the older versions of Microsoft Help (not the HTML version that puts the definitions inline – ick). An acronym or other jargon would get a little green dotted underline, and upon clicking the word, a yellow, multiline box would show up that contained the definition. It was a borderless, non-modal window that could contain similarly underlined words, which could in turn launch more definition windows.
It sounds like this could be implemented using
xul:popup, but if that doesn’t work, we could implement a borderless, non-modal window instead – I’ve seen such windows in XUL applications already.I started a thread about this at the mozillaZine Forums long ago, but the discussion never really went anywhere.
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