arundelo comments on The Cognitive Science of Rationality - LessWrong

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Comment author: arundelo 13 September 2011 10:21:01PM 0 points [-]

This works (if entered with the HTML editor):

<span title="hover text">blah</span>

Unfortunately, if I remember correctly, there are gaps in browser support for it. Also IIRC, using <a> works in more browsers, but the text will show up styled like a link unless some CSS tweaking is done.

Comment author: gwern 14 September 2011 12:14:08AM *  1 point [-]

That's just a title tooltip isn't it? You can set those in Markdown easily enough (eg. [display](http://hyperlink "hover text")), and you're not allowed any sort of markup inside the tooltip, and they have severe length limitations too. So it'd be a major compromise. (I have, painfully, added them to the frontpage of gwern.net, but no one has ever commented on them or given any sign that they are useful, so I've never bothered with putting them elsewhere.)