Talk:Balloon help

message: We should also have an article about those notification balloons in XP and Gnome that appear near the system tray/notification area, used because they are better than modal dialogs. — Omegatron 15:05, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: These are apparently called "balloon tips" in XP.  — Omegatron 15:09, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Those things in XP 

message: I worked on adding these to an app back in the day, and I seem to remember that the official Apple name was "Balloon Help online assistance"; note that Help is in caps and the word online asssistance is part of the name.  And on XP or any other system, it would not be called Balloon Help, in the same sense that Canon doesn't sell Xerox machines.
Unfortunately, I think about 90% of links talking about this are dead, and the rest are Seinfeld-esqe jokes along the lines of "Hey, remember balloon help?"
And for the record, I actually liked balloon help, and I'm not sure why everyone hated it.  To add my own original research to the pot, I'd say it had something to do with the Mac getting absolutely hammered with criticism and spite in the mid-nineties, some of if deserved, most of it being the "wow my Windows 95 machine is cooler than your Mac" sort of thing.
Jkonrath 14:14, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This might help you:  --Steven Fisher 17:56, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I still have a MacOS 7.6.1 machine (old MacBook 5400), and think the OS has much to teach current students of interface design. Simple, elegant, aimed at helping the user (usability, consistent interface). Balloon Help IMHO was a successful feature, pre-dating and superior (from user's POV) to Microsoft's Office Assistant ("Clippy") AI. Balloon Help was a simple, quick way to get in-context help and explanation of the OS. Only flaw to me was that it wasn't implemented more thoroughly throughout the OS, and applications. My 2¢. -- David Spalding (☎ ✉ ✍) 00:27, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The official Apple name 

message: I find that the use of "likely" as an adverb, as in "likely historical", detracts from legibility. Moreover, I don't understand the phrase "likely historical in nature" at all. D021317c (talk) 16:11, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Likely

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message: "Balloon help is also highly visible in GNOME"
I've been using and developing for GNOME since 1.0 and I've never heard of such a thing.  The first google hit is a document explaining GNOME "Notification Balloons" (not help balloons), and the second hit is this wikipedia article.  If GNOME does have balloon help, what does GNOME call it, and where's the "Show Balloons" command?
If this simply refers to tooltips, then let's move it to the Tooltips page where it belongs.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.163.72.2 (talk) 16:04, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  GNOME? 

message: Should not this page not cover What's this? popups as well - the equivalent in windows for Balloon help that is triggered by first entering What's this mode and then clicking on the object one wants information on? See for example http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2002-November/msg00201.html
Pilpi (talk) 09:16, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  There are individual articles for "Tooltips" and other interface implementations of the idea. This article addresses the System 7 implementation, not the general idea. IMHO. -- David Spalding (☎ ✉ ✍) 00:29, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  'What's this' popups 

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message: In sub section "Legacy" the link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa511451.aspx is broken ("We're sorry, the page you requested cannot be found.").
--Mortense (talk) 20:41, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken link 

message: Article contains this: Incidentally, Microsoft was able to add their own embodiment of Balloon help by acquiring the original patent among many purchased from Apple Computer in the early 1990s. I'm not aware of any such purchase, only a cross-use agreement in the late 90s. I'm skeptical this ever happened. Anyone have any details? Steven Fisher (talk) 21:48, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Microsoft bought the patent?