A tooltip is a piece of text that appears when you move your mouse over something in a program. As the name suggests, they were originally used for explaining what different tool icons represented in ...

If you’ve used OS X applications for any length of time, you’re probably familiar with tooltips—those little floating yellow tags of explanatory text that appear when your mouse hovers over a button ...

In Safari 2, if you hover over a link for a second or so, a small yellow box (called a “tooltip”) will appear displaying the URL associated with that link. While this is a very useful feature—you can ...