Tooltips Need a Delay, and Then They Need to Skip It

A developer's fix for tooltips that appear instantly on mouse travel: add a 200ms delay, then a 300ms 'warm' window so subsequent tooltips open instantly. The article explains the pattern with React code and a Claude skill for auditing your own codebase.

A click is always intentional whereas a hover is not intentional.

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