wotnwhy Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Just an idea for a possible improvement we could make to these wonderfull forums. on a couple of other forums i'm a member of, when browsing forums, if you hover the cursor over the thread title you get a little preview of the first few lines of the thread. it doesn't make any difference to the loading times of the pages or anything so can't see it having any negative effect. i find it really useful as my method of using forums is to go to new post and scroll through opening up any ones that seem interesting or relevent. but a lot of thread titles don't offer a lot of insight into what they contain. and this preview feature offers a good solution to that. just a thought? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ped Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Hi Tom! Yeah I really like that feature on Talkbass. I think I mentioned it a while back but it was not possible with this type of forum software or something, but I will wait and see what Ben says here... ped Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wotnwhy Posted February 25, 2008 Author Share Posted February 25, 2008 i don't really go on talkbass, i know the feature from computer music and body mod sites. and those pages load just as quickly as basschat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderthumbs Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 I use Firefox as my browser, together with an Add-on called "CoolIris". This, when hovering over any link, in this case a thread title, gives me a "preview" icon at the end. If I move to this preview icon, it opens up a temporary window with the contents of that thread in, which I can then use like any other browser window to read it, scroll down, etc. As soon as I move out of that temporary window, it disappears. If this is the sort of thing you're talking about, it can be achieved with the use of available browsers, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ped Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 [quote name='Thunderthumbs' post='146958' date='Feb 25 2008, 10:33 PM']I use Firefox as my browser, together with an Add-on called "CoolIris". This, when hovering over any link, in this case a thread title, gives me a "preview" icon at the end. If I move to this preview icon, it opens up a temporary window with the contents of that thread in, which I can then use like any other browser window to read it, scroll down, etc. As soon as I move out of that temporary window, it disappears. If this is the sort of thing you're talking about, it can be achieved with the use of available browsers, etc.[/quote] Good idea, I did try that add on for a short while. I love googlepreview, couldn't be without it now!! And tabscope! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 No please no. Unless there's a way to turn it off in any browser. This 'feature' drives me nuts on Talk Bass because it invariably pops up where ever the cursor happens to be on the page covering up what I'm actually trying to read. So for me no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bass_ferret Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Finnbass have got it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 [quote name='bass_ferret' post='162145' date='Mar 23 2008, 12:14 PM']Finnbass have got it [/quote] still here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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