Comments on: Walter Zorn’s ToolTip with a JQuery Twist

By: Mirsad

Mirsad — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:11:43 +0000

Yeah, I noticed the same thing. Sad to hear. I’ve read nothing but good news about these tool tips. I wonder what exactly happened to him? RIP Walter

As for finding these files on the web… the only files I could find are:
tip_baloon.js (Google= download tip_baloon.js walter zorn) and go to the koders.com result.
wz_tooltip.js (Google= download wz_tooltip.js walter zorn) and go to the koders.com result.
and of course your (Marion’s) modified version which is in the second comment:
wz_tooltip.wz.js

Is this all we’d need to use the tooltips”? I tried editing some of my tags according to this site:
http://edwardsmark.com/proofOfConcept/walterZorn/
and added the .js scripts in my html document, but I don’t get any tooltips at all. Is there any CSS or any other HTML that I’m missing?

Any help would be appreciated!

By: Trident101

Trident101 — Fri, 07 May 2010 23:19:20 +0000

Hello all from reading here and from another site/forum were another user was asking if anyone knew why the Walter Zorn site was down it has been posted that Walter has sadly passed away some time last year I have tried to confirm this but unable to find anything that may confirm this on the net …to read the reply from the forum I read this you can visit this url..http://www.wysiwygwebbuilder.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25422&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15 look for the posting by Strodlee. If this is the case R.I.P. Walter thanks for all that you gave us ….

By: marion

marion — Thu, 06 May 2010 12:27:35 +0000

Even though WalterZorn.com is down, you might be able to find what you’re looking on the WayBack Machine here:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://walterzorn.com

I don’t know why WalterZorn.com is down, last night I did make an attempt to email the person who owns the domain, but I have no way of knowing if they received the email (or if they ever will.)

By: Goran Eriksson

Goran Eriksson — Thu, 06 May 2010 11:24:23 +0000

The script from WZ I want is:
Mouse over, when I point at a small picture (or a word) a bigger picture will be visible and connected to the mouse-pointer.
The WZ tooltip was in 2 or 3 steps.
I know nothing about Javascript so I need the fully instruction for success!! Do You have it?
Is it possible to came in contact with Walter Z (and ask where the website is)

By: marion

marion — Thu, 06 May 2010 01:37:47 +0000

I don’t know what happened to WalterZorn.com, I know I have a copy of his JS tool tips, just have to find it.

Update… what am I thinking, I posted a link to it in the 2nd comment on this post.

By: Goran Eriksson

Goran Eriksson — Wed, 05 May 2010 10:22:06 +0000

What has happen with Walter Zorn website ?? It is passed away.
Why??
Anybody know??? I really need a tooltip from WZ.
Regards
Göran
Sweden

By: marion

marion — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:11:17 +0000

Glad it helped you out.

By: Gyorgy

Gyorgy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:21:08 +0000

Hi,

I just would like to say big thanks to both of you for this workaround related to tablesorter.pager and wz_tooltip

Cheers.

By: marion

marion — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:28:52 +0000

Glad to hear it all worked out for you Alex.

For those who need it you can find Alex’s modified version of the JQuery Tablesorter pager here:

http://www.figmentthinking.com/ft_downloads/javascript/jquery.tablesorter.pager.zip

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:50:27 +0000

Thanks Marion. It fixed the problem. The tooltips are now shown as intended. However, in my case, I have to edit the jquery tablesorter’s pager plugin js file instead. But it works perfectly in both ways.