If 'Display emoticons as graphics' is shown, then :-) etc. are converted into graphics. But sometimes one does want to see the original typeset thing (e.g. if something is shown as emoticon which is not ment as one). ChatZilla offers a tooltip showing the original typed text, unfortunally Mail&News doesn't.

I'm not quite sure if linking a navigator file inside mailnews is a good idea - otoh I don't know why browser.js is in navigator in the first place: I'd expected it somewhere along browser.xml in global... Anyway, when smilies have gotten a title attribute by bug 335344, this will show it as a tooltip.

Comment on attachment 219774 [details] [diff] [review] show html tooltips in messagepane, v1 From IRC: FillInHTMLTooltip (and possibly aHTMLTooltip) needs to move (probably to utilityOverlay.js) and the other two message windows also need to be patched.

*** Bug 318702 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

(In reply to comment #2) > (From update of attachment 219774 [details] [diff] [review]) > From IRC: FillInHTMLTooltip (and possibly aHTMLTooltip) needs to move (probably > to utilityOverlay.js) and the other two message windows also need to be > patched. Does FillInHTMLTooltip still need to move to utilityOverlay.js?

The fundamental problem (linking a navigator file inside mailnews) is still there, so this means most probably "yes". But I didn't look into this since then. (Oh my, I really let that dangle for more than a year? :-( )

This enables the tooltips for emoticons in both messenger.xul and MessageWindow.xul. FillInHTMLTooltip() is moved from browser.js to a more generic location in contentAreaUtils.js - from where it still can be used by all necessary files.

Comment on attachment 283928 [details] [diff] [review] Show emoticon tooltip in message window and messenger. The idea looks good but when I tried it it broke tooltips entirely in Editor (and note that Editor uses different tooltips anyway).

Fixed editor issue by renaming the offending function from FillInHTMLTooltip() to FillInHTMLTooltipEditor()

Comment on attachment 284354 [details] [diff] [review] same as above + fixed editor.xul issue >+ <tooltip id="aHTMLTooltip" onpopupshowing="return FillInHTMLTooltipEditor(this);"/> For bonus points work out how to use "normal" tooltips for Composer's sidebar :-)

Landed on trunk. Many thanks, Chewey, for cutting this loose end here!