Re: [ANN] hoverMe 3.0 -- An Even More Sophisticated Image Hover Script

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn said the following on 4/16/2006 2:22 PM:
> Matt Kruse wrote:
>
>> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>>>>> <URL:http://pointedears.de/hoverMe>
>>>> What is it, what does it do, I have no clue ?
>>> Move the system pointer of a graphical framework (e.g. the mouse
>>> cursor in Windows) over the image (provided image display is
>>> supported and not disabled). Then Read the Source, Luke.
>> Your example leaves me with no clue about what your script does. Not even
>> a simple description of functionality on the index page.
>
> What part of "Image Hover Script" did you not understand?

What part of "Common Sense" do *you* not understand? You post an ANN for
a library that is poorly documented that is supposed to be for image
rollovers yet nowhere in the page does it explain that?

>> The code, I assume, is embedded in a .js file somewhere? Is it commented?
>
> Yes and yes.

Yes and poorly.

>> I don't know.
>
> You could have found the script element referring to it. There are not so
> many of them there.

Good idea for a library - make the code easy to get to.

>> Good examples, online-viewable documented source, and good written
>> documentation are necessary for reusable code to be helpful to anyone but
>> the author. IMO.

Exactly and his fails miserably.

> hoverMe, like all my scripts, is not for the completely clueless, and it is
> not for those who are unwilling to learn the basics of client-side script
> programming.

That library is only for a list of people who I will leave nameless.

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Randy
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