Keep the yellow box for longer!

coreilly1

When I run the mouse over one of the thread titles to see what the gist of the thread is about,the yellow box containing text dissappears before I'v finished reading it.I'm a perfectly competant reader but sometimes some are longer than others.

Maybe it would be possible to leave the yellow box floating there until you take the cursor away.Its a really handy though

Baz_

'tis nice and handy alright. I personally don't mind, since I go by the decision making process of, if it hasn't piqued my interest by the time it goes away, then I'm not going to bother.

However I give the idea the thumbs up, as long as it is a quick fix (if its even fixable, but then again, surely it is).

Karoma

I agree - extend the duration by just a few more seconds or indefinitely (and yes, it is do-able.)

nobodythere

It is indefinite... just don't move the mouse

Talliesin

How the title attribute is rendered is a matter for your browser to decide.

Baz_

grasshopa wrote:

It is indefinite... just don't move the mouse

Talliesin wrote:

How the title attribute is rendered is a matter for your browser to decide.

In other words its indefinite in Internet Explorer, but not in Firefox. And all other browsers could do their own crazy thing with it.

steveland?

Baz_ wrote:

In other words its indefinite in Internet Explorer, but not in Firefox. And all other browsers could do their own crazy thing with it.

Basically yeh

There's no way of changing the code used to generate the topic previews, it's your browser that decides how long to show it for

Baz_

I think the solution, if anybody could be arsed doing it, is instead of having a title property, have a mouseover javascript function which pops up a div at the position of the pointer, and disappears it on mouseout.

I think the key phrase here is "...if anybody could be arsed doing it..."

Karoma

Baz_ wrote:

I think the key phrase here is "...if anybody could be arsed doing it..."

Precisely. I volunteer Mr Not-too-busy-to-drag-up-oldish-posts
edit: Alternatively,someone suggested that it can be modified client-side with some hacks.. looking..

Talliesin

Baz_ wrote:

I think the key phrase here is "...if anybody could be arsed doing it..."

And if people would appreciate the extra overhead on the pages.

Eoin

Talliesin wrote:

And if people would appreciate the extra overhead on the pages.

I don't think there would be much more overhead? The summary text is already retrieved as the "title" value, so instead of populating the title text it could instead populate a JavaScript function...

i.e. instead of
title="this is the summary text of the thread"
you would have something like
onmouseover="showSummary('this is the summary text of the thread')"

Baz_

eoin_s wrote:

I don't think there would be much more overhead? The summary text is already retrieved as the "title" value, so instead of populating the title text it could instead populate a JavaScript function...

i.e. instead of
title="this is the summary text of the thread"
you would have something like
onmouseover="showSummary('this is the summary text of the thread')"

true, the overhead would be all client side, but I think some people have javascript turned off, so they wouldn't get any summary and would suffer, for our gain.