Your users’ experience in terms of navigating your site should be reason enough for performance tuning a site. Users have many options when it comes to consuming content on the internet, and a slow performing website will frustrate them and send them to another site. A faster and more responsive website will keep them more engaged and focused on your content, rather than waiting for scripts and images to load.
4 New AJAX and JavaScript Tooltips
Duplicate the jQuery home page tool tips using MooTools
The jQuery home page has a pretty suave tool tip-like effect, as seen above. Here’s how to accomplish the same effect using MooTools.
Prototip
Prototip allows you to easily create both simple and complex tool tips using the Prototype JavaScript framework. You can easily customize it, control the tool tip position and get configurable rounded corners (with no PNG images required).
Simpletip
Simpletip is a plug-in for the popular jQuery JavaScript library. It allows you to create tool tips with ease for any element on the page using the power of jQuery’s selectors and event management. The tool tips can be static, dynamic or even loaded through AJAX with a variety of different visual effects.
Coda pop-up bubbles
Re-create Coda’s ‘puff’ pop-up bubbles, shown when you mouse over a downloadable image.
Read the full article at SmashingMagazine: 70 New, Useful AJAX And JavaScript Techniques