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Tooltip Timing

MUST

MUST: Delay first tooltip in a group; subsequent peers no delay

Delay the first tooltip in a group; subsequent peers have no delay

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Why it matters

Add a small delay (~500ms) before showing the first tooltip to avoid tooltips appearing on accidental hovers. Once a tooltip in a group is shown, subsequent tooltips in the same area should appear immediately to allow easy exploration.

References

Built by Gleb Stroganov, design engineer at Evil Martians.

The rules come from other people's skills and guidelines — Vercel, Rauno Freiberg, @Ibelick, impeccable, Emil Kowalski, Tailwind, RAMS — each one credited on the Sources page. The work here is extraction and wiring: every rule is pulled into one corpus, given a good and a bad example you can operate, a MUST/SHOULD/NEVER rule an agent can paste, and a link back to where it came from.