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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2009-05-16 23:52:09 +02:00
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> I agree, browser handling of this CSS is often not good.
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>
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> A toggle would be the perfect UI, but the heaviness of needing
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> to include 30 lines of javascript to do it, plus then it only working
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> with javascript enabled, is also not optimal.
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>
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> Another idea would be to make the "..." a link to the ikiwiki cgi.
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> The cgi could then have a mode that displays all the backlinks of a page
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> in a list.
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>
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> Yet another idea: Find some more refined CSS for handling a variable
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> size popup.. --[[Joey]]
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2020-04-21 23:09:07 +02:00
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>> The HTML5 "Details" tag would be perfect:
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>> <https://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_details.asp>
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>> <details><summary>example</summary>here's an example</details>
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>> The above works for me on ikiwiki.info which does not have `html5:1`
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>> so far as I can tell *— [[Jon]], 2020-04-21*
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2020-10-07 14:05:06 +02:00
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>>> [[!tag patch]]Patch in my repo, commit f051f84f632c3eaf86c5cff172692ce71ad5375d.
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>>> [[!template id=gitbranch branch=jon/more-backlinks-html5-use-details-tag author="[[Jon]]"]]
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>>> (I must say this looks *much* nicer, IMHO) *—[[Jon]], 2020-10-07*
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