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Re: mouseover. Is it a word?

Subject: Re: mouseover. Is it a word?
From: Johndan Johnson-Eilola <johndan -at- PURDUE -dot- EDU>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:12:27 -0500

"Mouseover" is (among other things) a term in javascript (used to
detect when the mouse is over a specific item on the screen); I think
it was also a similarly function term in HyperTalk, HyperCard's
scripting language. So you might use the term in talking to other
tech writers or website designers, but a general audience would
probably think it sounded odd.

- Johndan

At 9:47 AM +0000 6/22/99, Svi Ben-Elya wrote:

The mouse hovers over the text.

On 6/21/99 9:08:55 PM Chris Hamilton wrote:
>
>Do you mouse over something to make associated text appear? Do you mouse
>over it? Or do you do something else to it. Mouseover seems to be the
>slang, but is it the phrase that a happening technical writer would use?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Chris
>--
>Chris Hamilton
>Technical Writer
>Tampa, FL
>caxdj -at- earthlink -dot- net
>


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