Glossary

[Alex]

How about a context sensitive glossary, which underlines words (like arb, and carb, etc...) with some help text like a description or the unabbreviated meaning (so for arb - Anti Roll Bar - Suspention Component) when you hover your mouse over it.

 

[H2DaE]

Sounds good to me, although maybe there could be an option in User CP to turn it off, as I could see it pissing some people off

This idea gets "Two thumbs up" from me

 

[dave]

you could write it all out and put it in guides

 

[ben]

There is an actual package available that can do this .....

Demo: http://www.thevbgeek.com/showthread.php?p=2283#post2283

 

[Alex]

:woot: that's cool

 

[arc]

i like that, i'd like the option to disable it though

 

[blackJTD]

sounds a nice idea

 

[madmax]

hey Im new to this. I like the idea too. i can see why some people might get annoyed with it tho.

 

[Alex]

is this going to happen?

 

[Stu DemonD]

Place your bets

 

[Alex]

Place your bets

Can't ben won't install vbetting

 

[ben]

possibly tomorrow....

 

[ben]

Installed - but I don't know what words you want done... post ideas below, currently just FIAT done - and before people complain it looks dodgy, I know - I've already requested a feature where the box is only as wide as the text - so expect that soon.

(You can do just words to popup words, or words which popup to a link - so a link to Wiki or something...)

Oh and to disable it, go into the control panel > options (it's at the bottom)

 

[Stu DemonD]

'arb' is there as well - first post in this thread

 

[ben]

Yeah, I've added one or two since (such as ePER ). I'll then create a "Glossary Page" which basically just lists all of them alphabetically....

So come on people, get those words rolling in

 

[Hellcat]

JTD - Jetronic Turbo Diesel?
MAF - Mass Air Flow?
ECU - Electronic Control /unit?
Gallery - NOT PHOTOTEACUP

 

[Alex]

HG - Head Gasket
ARB - Anti-roll bar
CC - Cubic Centemeters

 

[Alex]

I don't know if it may even be a good idea to enter stuff like cam and sump, a cam being an offcentered doo-dar and a sump being that thing where all the oil lives

Oh another acronym - ECU - Electronic Control Unit (NOT ENGINE control unit) - EDIT <- that looks like I may have been having a dig at helcat, who also put the same thing, and was also correct

 

[ben]

Hmm... Wiki disagrees with you on the ECU front there... whilst there are a number of Electronic CU's in the car, it refers to the main one we all know as the Engine Control Unit....

 

[ben]

Ok added those (what I could find) - do you think it's worth putting in descriptive text, or just filling in the acronyms and linking to Wiki?