Non-motoring > Move mouse over extract, whole post appears! Miscellaneous
Thread Author: Dave_ Replies: 20
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New Wed 3 Mar 10 19:46 
 Move mouse over extract, whole post appears! - Dave_
Hey, this is good. When I keep my mouse over one of the six recent posts in the "Forum Posts" box to the right, a window appears with the whole of the text in it! Which saves no end of faffing about clicking on things to load them in my browser.

Has it done that from the start, or is it a new trick that's just been added? Yes, I know I may sound like a bit of a luddite if you've all been doing that for years and I didn't know about it...
Last edited by: Dave_TD {P} on Wed 3 Mar 10 at 19:48
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New Wed 3 Mar 10 19:52 
 Move mouse over extract, whole post appears! - Focusless
New - just come back after tea and noticed it. I quite like the roll-over effect, but I'm not keen on the layout - not enough distinction between posts IMO.

Also, I would still like to be able to go to the thread in flat view by clicking on the link - not threaded view. But I can imagine there are probably more important things on the to-do list :-)
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New Wed 3 Mar 10 19:59 
 Move mouse over extract, whole post appears! - Focusless
>> but I'm not keen on the layout - not enough distinction between posts IMO.

Fixed!
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New Wed 3 Mar 10 20:02 
 Move mouse over extract, whole post appears! - car4play
Yes - it was probably a style sheet change that your browser has cached.

So all of you click the refresh button on your browser!
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New Wed 3 Mar 10 20:01 
 Move mouse over extract, whole post appears! - car4play
No - just added it. We were going to announce it but you got there first. I suppose it adds to the excitement to leave things for you to find.
I suppose it could go to flat view, but then because we are eliminating clicks which is really bad for ad impressions, it leaves you with another click to get it to flat view.

So basically, what we were going to announce was that we have replaced the RSS reader pane of 6 posts with a new "forum latest posts widget". These can have more functionality on them and can stand more alone from the page content. Have you noticed what else you can do with it?

Also look out for more "widgets" over the next few weeks!

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New Wed 3 Mar 10 20:11 
 Move mouse over extract, whole post appears! - Focusless
>> I suppose it could go to flat view but then because we are eliminating clicks
>> which is really bad for ad impressions it leaves you with another click to get
>> it to flat view.

Ok - I understand your reasoning.

>> Have you noticed what else you can do with it?

Scroll arrows, or something else?
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New Wed 3 Mar 10 20:14 
 Move mouse over extract, whole post appears! - Focusless
>> eliminating clicks which is really bad for ad impressions

Which ads? :-)

Clever stuff BTW.
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New Wed 3 Mar 10 20:34 
 Move mouse over extract, whole post appears! - Focusless
>> Clever stuff BTW.

...although it doesn't seem to be updating now - top of the list is the first post in this thread.
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New Wed 3 Mar 10 20:38 
 Move mouse over extract, whole post appears! - Dave_
>> Have you noticed what else you can do with it?

Use the scroll arrows to move through every post on the site, in time and date order :-)

Although the live updating does indeed appear to have fallen over somewhat.

EDIT: It's been fixed :-) :-)
Last edited by: Dave_TD {P} on Wed 3 Mar 10 at 20:39
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New Wed 3 Mar 10 20:41 
 Move mouse over extract, whole post appears! - Focusless
>> EDIT: It's been fixed :-) :-)

...except some posts are missing - I'm assuming we're watching work in progress :-)
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New Wed 3 Mar 10 21:08 
 Move mouse over extract, whole post appears! - rtj70
I think I noticed the start of the change to the Forum Post widget because it didn't change/refresh when moving to a different page. I probably didn't make that clear though.
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New Wed 3 Mar 10 23:25 
 Move mouse over extract, whole post appears! - car4play
ok fixed now.
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New Wed 3 Mar 10 23:32 
 Move mouse over extract, whole post appears! - car4play
>> >> eliminating clicks which is really bad for ad impressions
>>
>> Which ads? :-)

All those ones that are really relevant to what you are reading - so much so that you can't resist just clicking on them. Only click on the useful ones or you will get RSI, Google will feel sorry for you we get penalised ;-)
>>
>> Clever stuff BTW.

Thanks. All good Web 2 tech - ajax and all that. The jquery way of doing it separates the page more from the widget. You can see it load after everything else a bit like the Google ads.
IE seems to be a bit sluggish though and you get to see the white at the bottom of the last post before it gets the content. But then that is IE so what else would we expect.

We thought that once we got this one working, it wouldn't be too hard to get the other ones we want to add working on here too. In a week or so's time. This place has got to have some compelling features.
Last edited by: car4play on Wed 3 Mar 10 at 23:32
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New Wed 3 Mar 10 23:45 
 Move mouse over extract, whole post appears! - Focusless
>> >> Which ads? :-)
>>
>> All those ones that are really relevant to what you are reading - so much
>> so that you can't resist just clicking on them.

Ah sorry - I've just disabled my ad-blocker plugin (which I'd forgotten was there) and can see what you mean now. It's now disabled for this site.

EDIT: .. although does that help you if I don't actually click on the ads anyway?
Last edited by: Focus on Wed 3 Mar 10 at 23:46
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New Wed 3 Mar 10 23:57 
 Move mouse over extract, whole post appears! - car4play
Thanks - we sometimes leave the blocker on here too by accident. Generally we will try not to overdo the ads so that they don't get too troublesome.
Don't know too much about the clicking. I do know you can over click them though and Google can spot this kind of "cheating". I tend to look at the ones that genuinely might be useful. e.g. on a Parking penalty thread here a load of ads came up for motoring law specialists and on their sites some of their FAQs were very interesting and helpful.
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New Thu 4 Mar 10 09:31 
 Move mouse over extract, whole post appears! - Focusless
In the Forum Posts box, as well as the link to the post itself, would it be possible to turn the forum name into a link to the forum's home page?
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New Thu 4 Mar 10 09:51 
 Move mouse over extract, whole post appears! - car4play
yeah - good idea.
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New Thu 4 Mar 10 11:18 
 Move mouse over extract, whole post appears! - Mapmaker
I get a lot of google ads in a foreign language. Anybody else?

(We also cannot view BBC iplayer as we come through a foreign provider. Are the two linked?)
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New Thu 4 Mar 10 11:22 
 Move mouse over extract, whole post appears! - LEDFoot
c'est le meme pour moi...

Just kidding, Fine for me. I expect google thinks you're offshore.
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New Thu 4 Mar 10 11:22 
 Move mouse over extract, whole post appears! - Zero
(yes)
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New Thu 4 Mar 10 14:17 
 Move mouse over extract, whole post appears! - Focusless
>> yeah - good idea.

I can see it's working - thanks
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