tooltip-time saving

logging the length of the onmouseover-onmouseout (?)

[Zolley]

Hello,

I'm about to run a user experiment where there are several links and for each link there is a tooltip-like window. I'd like to log the length of time each window text was read.
Someone suggested to use xml http request but I couldn't figure out how I should implement it :(

Could anyone suggest me something? The more code-like is the answer the happier I would be :)

Thanks,
Zolley

[larryn]

Zolley,

If you are manually causing the tooltip window to show and hide, then you could use a tracking url to get that information into some type of log file on the server -- most likely you would have to use javascript and maybe an img object to accomplish this.

Larry

[Zolley]

I'm not sure I understand this. Could you please explain in details? :-/

I've read about the img solution at [forums.s...] e o c h a t.com/archive/t-8092/JavaScript-Write-file-on-server
but it's still too complicated for me... :(