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[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

TIL I learned these things are called balloons.

[–] kernelle@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

On Android they're called toasts

[–] androogee@midwest.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In Mortal Kombat they're called Noob Saibot

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, they'd probably be called tooltips now

[–] towerful@programming.dev 26 points 2 years 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

[–] kernelle@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

This dude UI's

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

Modals make me so godamned angry.