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What is the best lightweight jQuery tooltip plugin? Why?

27th October 2010

My answer to What is the best lightweight jQuery tooltip plugin? Why? on Quora

Last time I went looking, I was very impressed by qTip: http://craigsworks.com/projects/...

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