There was a time when I had to goto the bank in person during business hours and interact with a teller. There was zero chance of getting hacked, the tellers knew me, and I had to live a more intentional life. Perhaps business hours for a website means real people are there actively monitoring its security and activity.
That's just a bug then. The tooltip should obviously just appear below the mouse, no matter how large it is, or it could just appear above the element instead of below.
Tooltips appear below the mouse pointer. By the way, this is an important reason to use OS mechanisms for UI features like that, which take care of such details, and not (having to) roll your own. Another standard feature of tooltips is that they remain on screen for a configurable amount of time (OS setting) and you can move the mouse during that time, should it obscure the tooltip for some reason.
I don’t know what OS you’re talking about, but that’s basically never been true on Windows. Native tooltips don’t natively try to dodge the cursor, and there’s no configuration of times and such, and not much actually even uses the original native stuff any more, nor should it. And as regards dodging the cursor, I don’t know of a single piece of software that actually queries the cursor in order to dodge it—though my dad told me years ago he’d implemented such a thing personally back somewhere around 2000.
This wasn’t much of a problem in the past, because the largest cursors shipped out of the box were only two or three times as big, and not much would collide. But in I think 2019 Windows 10 gave you a colour and size selector, and it extends the range past 1–3 all the way up to 15, which I think might have been 256×256 or something, which is absolutely huge and I actually had a lot of fun deliberately doing bright orange size 15 cursor for a whole week when that feature first came out, before eventually settling on 4, which is still way bigger than people are used to, and well worth it, in my opinion, except that for size 3 and beyond, tooltips get occluded, and so I’d lose the first couple of letters of tooltips. (I like the way macOS enlarges the cursor if you shake it about, so you can find it if you lost it.)
Huh, just checked the original Firefox bug from 2004, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248718, and it looks like they’ve finally fixed this after twenty years, in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1712669. Still took five more years of occasional complaints, but I wonder if Windows making it so easy to get bad tooltips has pushed more software to fix their tooltip placement. Nice to see, even if it’s too late to benefit me any more.
Of course, on the web you can’t do it properly with in-DOM tooltips; only with native tooltips, which are unfortunately very limited and often unsuitable for other reasons.
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Now as for Linux + Wayland… ugh. The situation is still laughably bad. I use Sway, `output eDP-1 scale 1.5` and `seat seat0 xcursor_theme Adwaita 96`, and the cursor still appears at at least three different sizes, depending on the app. It used to be five. GTK is just ignoring the size thing so I can’t judge it, Qt seems to be actually positioning tooltips sanely these days, avoiding the cursor, which I don’t think it did four years ago. Good show.
This. The EMR does go down from time to time. We still have paper order pads around so that things can get done. Its annoying AF. You have to fax things to radiology to get a scan. You have to walk to pharmacy to get meds. But, the system worked before computers (which wasn't that long ago in many hospitals) and it works without them today.
That said , the first time I had to use paper I felt like I had no idea what I was doing, because a lot of the EMR defaults aren't there to prompt you. So you have to specify a 'start time' for a medication, but in the EMR now is the default, so I didn't think about it as anything mandatory.
And you can transition immediately? When things like that happen over here, adjustments are far from immediate, and my center is not in the middle of nowhere. Of course the papers are there, but radiology is pretty much out of service for a few hours. And then you have advanced/special testing that pretty much does not run at all.
Downtime procedures are definitely a thing in the US. Known downtime is certainly the best time to prepare and practice, this happens when an EMR goes through an upgrade and migrations are run. This can be 6-24 hours.
There are bundled minor upgrades (think service packs) that have short (10-60 minute) downtimes, blocking migrations run in that time but are kept to a minimum. If it is at all possible, migrations will be async (even on major upgrades) and run in the background after the new version goes live.
During downtime, bloodwork and the like involve pre-allocated barcode labels. Either the results will be accessible on the instrument afterwards in its memory, or the results will be printed out and it is up to the lab tech to transcribe the results.
I can't speak in depth for radiology, but I expect that they have file share servers involved for the raw results. Likely less local memory (in number of results that can be stored) than clinical lab instruments.
You can ventilate or have light in manual downtime. You don't have immediate access to any advanced stuff. And that's for very specific catastrophic situations. In grey zones where things half work and emergency protocols have not been activated, the hospital is almost completely stalled.
Have an original IBM PC sitting here. It has a 5 pin DIN plug on the back to connect a casette tape drive. I also recall BASICA.COM on diskette leveraged the BASIC routines in the original ROM, so it was about 1/3 the size of GWBASIC.EXE.
I don’t think LifeLock’s founder regrets making his Social Security number public. Sure his identity was stolen over a dozen times [1]. But he made millions. Making businesses liable for data loss is the only stable long-term solution.
A similar thing happened to Jeremy Clarkson of top gear fame in 2008 when he said the theft of bank numbers wasn't a big deal and published his bank details.
Someone donated £500 to a charity on his behalf to prove him wrong.
