giant tooltips don't necessarily scroll well

[jdee]

Look at http://dubsar-dictionary.com?term=jurisprudence . The gloss reading "the collection of rules imposed by authority" has a massive tooltip because that sense has 614 associated pointers, many semantic, so lots of synonyms make for a tooltip that won't fit on the screen. In at least one instance (Google Chrome 8, Ubuntu 10.04 and using a mouse with a tracking wheel) it is possible to scroll the tooltip to see the material at the bottom. Strangely, the entire #main div, with the word entry, scrolls along with it, but the header and footer of the page do not. The #main div may be scrolled right over the header, obscuring it.

In addition, the tooltip is currently set to have a max-width of 45% of the screen. Without that, it will in many cases be very short and wide. It is probably a good idea to handle the tooltip dimensions more dynamically. In the case of jurisprudence, above, the tooltip should probably be made quite a bit wider, since so much material disappears off the bottom of the screen.

[jdee]

This has been improved. Now the tooltips have scrollbars, but they do not exceed the height of the viewport. When the scrollbar is used, the tooltip header scrolls out of view. Unfortunately, it contains the X close button. The tooltip can be dismissed in other ways, particularly by mousing over a different gloss. Still, it might be desirable to leave the header where it is when scrolling. So this issue remains open for the moment.