A positioning engine to make overlays, tooltips and dropdowns faster

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Nifty! But most of the effects from 'Constraints' onward aren't working as expected in FF/26.0 (OSX). (They are doing interestingly useful-as-described things in Chrome.)

Same on FF 26.0 (WinXP).

We're working on it now, thanks for letting us know.

Edit: Fixed, thanks again

And they used it to make Shepherd http://github.hubspot.com/shepherd/docs/welcome/ which also looks really handy (JS-based app tour library)

I hate app tours with a passion, I wish devs would only use this if a user explicitly wants a hand-held introduction, otherwise it feels like it just gets in the way.

I've been looking for a library like this to build a guided tour in app. The demo page explains it all well. http://github.hubspot.com/tether/docs/welcome/

Hubspot already has Sheperd, which might be what you need, built on top of tether:

http://github.hubspot.com/shepherd/docs/welcome/

But I get the enjoyment of building it yourself too :)

Excellent! Thanks.

Reminds me of the position helper in JQueryUI. I was able to extract the helper into a small file for using it, without having to load the rest of the framework.

http://jqueryui.com/position/

Thank you so much for the nifty tools. Been using messenger successfully for a while, this one just comes at a time when it's most needed. Hubspot best spot. And Shepherd looks brilliant too.

This is a really neat idea, more power to you for making this.

It's a little slow/choppy in Safari though. Maybe you can use transforms instead for supported browsers?

It actually does. Mind sharing Safari and OS version?

This looks extremely useful - thanks for sharing!

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