Dear Leigh,

LB> I've created a bilingual sutta (excerpt) web page

A great idea indeed. Note that it can be much improved by using HTML
codes of all Pali letters, without any additional scripts, applets,
fonts or software.

AA - Ā aa - ā
II - Ī ii - ī
UU - Ū uu - ū
.M - Ṃ .m - ṃ
'N - Ń 'n - ń
~N - Ñ ~n - ñ
.T - Ṭ .t - tฺ
.D - Ḍ .d - ḍ
.N - Ṇ .n - ṇ
.L - Ḷ .l - lฺ
.R - Ṛ .r - rฺ
.C - Ç .c - ç
'S - Ś 's - ś
.S - Ṣ .s - ṣ
.H - Ḥ .h - ḥ

Another option is just to place English and Pali in two columns side
by side - in this case there's no need to move the mouse vigorously.

There's another gimmick I once used - to assign to the link

<a href="link.htm"
onmouseout="document.all.comment.innerText='';"
onmouseover="document.all.comment.innerText='this is a comment';">

and assigning

<FONT id=comment> </FONT>

to the spare place in the table. Then, when you put the mouse over
the link, comment appears in the spare space.

And there's also a rather bothersome option to use document.layers.

Dimitry