Prototip 2 - Create beautiful tooltips with ease

http://www.nickstakenburg.com/projects/prototip2/

by chaostheory • 18 years ago

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babul• 18 years ago

Very nice tool tip scripts. Now need to find an excuse to use them...

ph0rque3• 18 years ago

I was excited until I saw the licence...

tjweir• 18 years ago

I agree, charging even for non-commercial use is a bit disappointing.

chaostheory5• 18 years ago

yeah... didnt't notice till now =/

ocskills• 18 years ago

$3 for a site really isn't that bad, all things considered. It's less than many image downloads on istockphoto.

chaostheory5• 18 years ago

it's not the price i'm worried about... it's more like what if this guy gets run over by a truck one day? can anyone else make fixes/enhancements to the code? Do I have to keep paying for future updates? (I didn't read the license...)

the more i think about it the more I regret posting this... not to mention for most ppl on this site, they will want the $50-255 dollar license and not the $3 version

briansmith2• 18 years ago

I am excited because of the license. If he is successful then that means that other programmers respect and appreciate his work as a programmer to exchange money for it. That means that other programmers (me, in particular) have a chance of making money by selling software, potentially even to other programmers.

It is amazing to me that so many programmers refuse to purchase any software, unless it comes bundled with a hardware purchase (Mac OS X, Windows). Hardware is worth hundreds or thousands of dollars but software is worth nothing?

DougBTX2• 18 years ago

If you want to sell this sort of stuff, you should aim it at .Net programmers. As generalising as this may sound, they are used to paying money for software, so are more likely to buy yours. Not so in the open source world. Naturally, you'll want to buy yourself a copy of Visual Studio, probably buy a copy of ReSharper as well, to get yourself started.

ph0rque3• 18 years ago

Whatever you pay for the licence, you don't get to modify the code (unless I'm misunderstanding what "no-derivative" means). That's what "de-excited" me about it.

josefresco• 18 years ago

But but but 37 Signals says it's okay to charge for software !?! I'm confused.

/tongue firmly in cheek

johns• 18 years ago

Someone port this to jQuery

ph0rque3• 18 years ago

and don't charge for it :~)

technoguyrob• 18 years ago

Doesn't have as many features, but...

http://jquery.bassistance.de/tooltip/demo/

aja23• 18 years ago

Maybe ask him to port it, cause you can't port with that license.

mkull• 18 years ago

would love to use this, alas we are frozen on prototype 1.1.5 at the moment...

Prototip 2 - Create beautiful tooltips with ease

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