[foobar33333]

It would be nice if the browser title text feature didn't flat out suck. Why is there no way to show tooltips immediately rather than having to wait a few seconds. Seems like every website reimplements them because the browser ones are useless.

[layer8]

> Why is there no way to show tooltips immediately rather than having to wait a few seconds.

Because you don’t want tooltips to constantly flicker up when moving your mouse around. This should be a user preference setting, like e.g. double-click speed. (It is on Windows for native tooltips, via the registry.)

[orangegreen]

I agree, I hate how long it takes for the title attribute to show up when hovering over elements. It takes a few seconds, where any decent tooltip will take maybe 0.5 seconds or so to show up. I'd love to be able to style the title attribute for length of time to show up.

Fortunately tooltips are pretty easy to make these days. You don't need Javascript at all to make a nice tooltip. But again, it's a tooltip - it's been done so many times before that it'd be nice to have a native browser version.

[frosted-flakes]

And that they don't work on mobile.

[onion2k]

Nor do custom tooltips though because the majority of websites and apps fire them on a mouseover event.

[mg]

Tooltips on mobile are tough.

Tooltips usually are on links. For example here on HN, hover over "11 minutes ago" in the comment header and it shows the time. Could this be made available to mobile users? Seems tricky. My first thought would be to show it when the user taps and holds. But that also triggers the browsers default context menu for links. So it would make a murky experience.

[smarkov]

https://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/what-is/air-view/

This is about the best and most intuitive solution you could come up with to this problem. Sadly I believe the Samsung Galaxy S4 was the only phone that supported this without an S Pen so you could simply hover over the screen with your finger. I wish it was a standard feature on all phones.

[eknkc]

I wonder if a hover over event would be good for UX.

I think most of the current displays can detect a finger hovering over the display but not necessarily touching it.

It might be a complete disaster though, just wondering how that info could be used.

[frosted-flakes]

If used sparingly I think it would be really good. Just for UI hints, not for anything critical. A universal "what is this?" input for anything on the screen.

[croes]

>My first thought would be to show it when the user taps and holds. But that also triggers the browsers default context menu for links

The first doesn't exclude the second. That's the way how https://xkcd.com/ is doing it. It just shows both.