Re: [Gimp-user] Adding Hotspots

[Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>]

You can do "on hover text" without using javascript. Do an internet 
search on keywords such as: css image on hover text

For example using css3: 
http://geekgirllife.com/place-text-over-images-on-hover-without-javascript/

There are also quite a few tutorials on the internet using css2.

On 06/20/2016 02:15 PM, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote:
> actually, if you as much as create image maps, and replcae the
> relevant URLs by javascript URLs you should get as close as waht you
> wanta s possible.
>
> Of course, images on themselves do not perform any action - actions
> are all performed by the viewer program. Few programas will be more
> feature-rich than a browser anyway.
>
> Just beware the  "image map" thing is an arcane html constrcut from
> the 90's - I am not sure it even works in a modern html5 borwser, but
> if it does, replacing the link targets with javascript actions should
> work just fine.

On hover text isn't necessarily arcane or outdated. It can be a nice way 
to preset text information.

Best,
Elle
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