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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

TIL I learned these things are called balloons.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On Android they're called toasts

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Mortal Kombat they're called Noob Saibot

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, they'd probably be called tooltips now

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A tooltip is more from an interaction. Hover over a button, and a tooltip pops up giving you a tip about the tool you are about to click.
Balloons don't come from interaction, and they point to something specific. Like an annotation or something.
Toasts are notifications. They can disappear after a while, or they might have to be manually dismissed.
A modal is a popup that prevents you interacting with other things.
A dialog is a popup that lets you interact with other things

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

This dude UI's

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Modals make me so godamned angry.