Sometime back I wanted a script that would allow me to display a "footnote" (a little extra sidebar info). I played around with a few scripts – even tried to write one myself (it sucked! LOL!) but someone sent me this link tonight and it looks really really cool. It *is* javascript based, so not sure what happens to people who don't have javascript. Might play around with it if I have some time…
Erik Bosrup's overLIB
1 | Jennifer
I just tested on my personal blog. It took all of one minute to get it set up… I really like it!
2 | hayden a. james
that script is really cool. there's lots like it at dynamicdrive.com. there's also a footnote javascript on my website that loads just above the status bar on mouse-over.
3 | heather
I added this one to my site over the weekend – it works really well and it is sooooooo easy to implement 😉
4 | Su(zi)e
Tested in Mozilla 1.0.1 with Javascript turned off — it's fine, no message, no snafus. Would be slightly confusing in the places where it's purely a tip and not a label for a link, but then if you're surfing with Javascript turned off, that's going to be one of the less confusing things that happens to you…
5 | kathi
I love OverLIB and have been using it for some time on my blog; my blog is about my pets and I use it to quickly re-introduce the "recurring characters" so I don't always have to explain in my narrative all of the details about that pet 
6 | lynda
I used overLIB for a while, but there was some reason I stopped using it… it had to do with compatibility issues.. I can't recall though. I'll need to go through my archives and see if I can figure it out.
7 | lynda
Hrm. The only thing I could find was something about not working properly in IE 6 if you have XHTML doctypes. ::shrugs::
8 | Babs
I implemented it on my site a while ago. What I like is that you can configure the "side notes" to look different that regular links so to less confuse your readers.
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