2009-04-24 15:40:07 +02:00
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I was just hovering over the '...' next to the backlinks on a page on
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<http://ikiwiki.info/>. In terms of the size of my browser window, this was
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towards the bottom-right of the screen.
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When I hovered over the '...', the additional backlinks float appeared. This
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caused the page length to grow down, meaning a horizontal scrollbar was added
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to the page. This meant the text reflowed, and the '...' moved outside of my
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mouse pointer region.
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This caused an infinite loop of box appears... text moves, box disappears...
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box re-appears.. which was not very visually pleasant.
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In general I think that the onhover float is a bit of bad UI. Even a truncated
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list of backlinks looks cluttered due to there being no delimiters. I moved to
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having an always-complete list of backlinks and having them as LI elements
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inside a UL to make it look neater, although I appreciate that would make some
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pages very long indeed.
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How about doing something a little like [[plugins/toggle]] for the excess
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items instead?
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-- [[Jon]]
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2009-04-24 15:41:25 +02:00
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An additional, related issue: if the box expands beyond the bottom of the
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page, you might move your mouse pointer to the scrollbar in order to move
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further down the list, but of course then you are outside the hover region.
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-- [[Jon]]
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