I’m more fond of “String that is too…” being displayed in the UI and then a tooltip with the full string being displayed when you mouse over the string in the UI.
Or winamp had a marquee that you could click and scroll manually, I liked that method too.
Well, as was already said, tooltips don’t work on mobile, at least not unless you write custom code.
And I’ve seen concepts for various marquee solutions, which attempted to fix the problem of the text start not always being readable, by e.g. only making the marquee scroll once after you click on it.
If you enjoy these marquee solutions, then more power to you, but the need for custom code is what keeps me away again.
Just making it horizontally scrollable is a beautifully simple solution in comparison.
I’m more fond of “String that is too…” being displayed in the UI and then a tooltip with the full string being displayed when you mouse over the string in the UI.
Or winamp had a marquee that you could click and scroll manually, I liked that method too.
The tooltips are often a smaller font though, which is an issue for some (many?) of us
Also not so great for mobile
Well, as was already said, tooltips don’t work on mobile, at least not unless you write custom code.
And I’ve seen concepts for various marquee solutions, which attempted to fix the problem of the text start not always being readable, by e.g. only making the marquee scroll once after you click on it.
If you enjoy these marquee solutions, then more power to you, but the need for custom code is what keeps me away again.
Just making it horizontally scrollable is a beautifully simple solution in comparison.