RESOLVED INVALID 35673
Web Inspector: poor usability of a single-line Popover 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35673
Summary Web Inspector: poor usability of a single-line Popover
Alexander Pavlov (apavlov)
Reported 2010-03-03 04:55:00 PST
In a popover that contains a single line of text, the usable message area ("content") height is twice as smaller as the entire popover height (yellow area), which makes it extremely hard to mouse-over, in order to leave the popover visible until mouse-out. A user is also misled into thinking they are going to hit the popover, since the mouse pointer is rested over the yellow-colored area which visually pertains to the popover content, but in fact it is not.
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Timothy Hatcher
Comment 1 2010-03-03 05:23:42 PST
I can look at this, I have a version of the popover that works well as a single line.
Pavel Feldman
Comment 2 2010-03-03 05:45:45 PST
(In reply to comment #1) > I can look at this, I have a version of the popover that works well as a single > line. Bug description is misleading. Problem is that when user is moving mouse from evaluated expression to a popover, he needs to reach popover content in order to prevent popover from disappearing. Now in case of text, popover content is a span and it does not occupy entire popover area horizontally. As a result, user reaches what he thinks is a popover, but popover still disappears. Furthermore, guys here claim that popover border is not considered a part of popover...
Timothy Hatcher
Comment 3 2010-03-03 05:51:04 PST
Right, the popover border is not considered a part of popover, since the shadow would be considered too. That could be fixed too with another positioned element used for hit testing.
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