Mail : Poor Design...

[Flynnstone]

I think iTunes mail is the worst.

When you hover the mouse over a picture in a mail message, a box pops up with "http:\\newmusic.itunes.com .... blah blah blah crap crap.."
This blocks out the content below this window.
This drives me a bit nuts.

Anyone else?

is there a way to turn this off. Please.

 

[Gray-Wolf]

Are you talking about the mail on the iPod Touch and iPhone? If so, it works fine for me. I not, what exactly are you talking about?

 

[Flynnstone]

Oops sorry ...
Mail on OS X.

I've included a picture with the yellow popup box.
I find the popup useless and very distracting.
I would like to turn this "feature" off.
Possible?

 

[kolax]

Leaving the cursor over any image will display image details. Every web browser does this - it is basically displaying any metadata for the image.

No idea how to turn it off in any browser or Mail though.

 

[Flynnstone]

ah ..
So its in WebKit.

Must be some kind of setting like :

sudo set Mailcrappinghoveringfeature off
or something like that.

 

[chaos86]

ah ..
So its in WebKit.

Must be some kind of setting like :

sudo set Mailcrappinghoveringfeature off
or something like that.

Or you could just not leave your mouse in one place over images. Or you could just move the mouse when this happens, which makes the popup instantly dissappear. Or switch to windows, where there are no annoying popups, or "tool-tips".

 

[Zyniker]

Not sure if this still works, but worth a try...
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070519173316942

 

[Flynnstone]

Ok, just tried that.
Doesn't work.

Jef Raskin is rolling over in his grave for this alone!

Maybe if I file a bug report over at webkit.org ...

 

[chaos86]

Maybe if I file a bug report over at webkit.org ...

Nope. It's a mac-wide thing. Try putting your mouse over a selected file in Finder.

Do you get mad that the app names hovering over your dock icons cover your desktop picture?

 

[Flynnstone]

I'm trying to do the file thing in Finder, but I don't get a tooltip.
So no problem there.

The tooltip over a dock icon is ok. Its somewhat useful. But unobtrusive.
The ones in Mail and especially iTunes mail is obtrusive & annoying.

Just think home much fun PC could have with this ...

 

[chaos86]

I'm trying to do the file thing in Finder, but I don't get a tooltip.

Oh right, it has to be a long file name that you can't see all of.

What is iTunes mail?

 

[Flynnstone]

What is iTunes mail?

When you get mail from iTunes, its full of massive tooltips.
See picture above. Its a cropped snapshot of my mail window.

 

[dyn]

In Safari you have the hidden option to display links as tooltips. Since a lot of software like Mail uses Safari/Webkit to display HTML content it seems that you may have enabled this option (it's off by default) causing the link of the image to show up in Mail when you hover on it. Software like Onyx and Secrets are able to enable and disable this option (you won't find it in the Safari preferences itself!).

So now you know why this option is hidden in the first place and why this isn't bad design on Apple's part

More info: http://secrets.blacktree.com/edit?id=2541