ImageEvents 1.5

This application reaches extraordinary peaks of achievement in JavaScript image rollover design, through its ground-breaking and entertaining tool tip design. Improbably, it leaves a sour and bitter taste, while odors of formaldehyde and Mello Yello linger in the uppermost reaches of the sinuses.

To the civilized world’s dismay, we have been supplied with titled tool tips. Even better, these tool tips easily appear off-screen, and have no hover delay. In a bow to the sheer hideousness of these disgusting simulacra of tippishness, we are thankfully allowed a preference option (one of two!) to turn them off. Melonsoft, you have been found guilty of misleading and perverting the young, by choosing REALbasic to implement this grotesque hoyty-toyt-yogurt-topped burlesque of an application.

Inexplicably, this application only allows you to try it for five minutes. In this amount of time, it may be possible to struggle your way through the truly terrible path interface. But we sincerely doubt it. And you definitely won’t be able to ignore the lack of support for XHTML, or the fact that you can perform all these tasks considerably more conveniently by hand-coding the HTML yourself. Certainly for $10 (38 Malaysian Ringgit), we expected a convenient animated guide to shoe polishing to be bundled with this application.

Perversely, the Melonsoft website, although not terribly ugly, features no detectable JavaScript rollovers on any of the images. This oversight was no doubt caused by some unfamiliar crisis within Melonsoft’s collective intestinal bacteria, rather than any specific inability to utilize their own software.

Melonsoft, we suggest you go dangle your withered parts over the toilet — it may give you much-needed and soothing relief, while you savor my rating of 10.4.

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