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Annoying Link Hover Effect on These Forums

Post by Joo » Mon Dec 19, 2005 10:26 pm

Don't you think so?
I mean, all links that are bold and when you hover over them they became normal. They are shaking and moving in all directions.. Since bold text takes more space, sometimes a topic title is wraped into two lines.. when you hover it, it skrinks to one line.. sometimes escaping your mouse "hand" like it's fearing the click  :)

It's better to apply another style, like having bold links in both states, just adding "a.hover {text-decoration: underline} for instance. Otherwise it affects the whole layout. Even tables are shrinking when you hover the different columns' headings.
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Re: Annoying Link Hover Effect on These Forums

Post by brad » Mon Dec 19, 2005 10:55 pm

Can you provide a screenie to show what you are seeing?

What browser?
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Re: Annoying Link Hover Effect on These Forums

Post by Joo » Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:13 am

Thanks for looking at this.

I'm using IE 6 on windows XP. I've just noticed that in Firefox, there are no bold links.
It's obvious what the developers who styled the forum are using  :)

See the screeshot. It's an animation just to better show what i mean.
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Re: Annoying Link Hover Effect on These Forums

Post by brad » Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:19 am

Groovy.. :P

I'll get Andy to take a look for you... nice animation. :D
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Re: Annoying Link Hover Effect on These Forums

Post by Predator » Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:22 am

brad wrote:Groovy.. :P

I'll get Andy to take a look for you... nice animation. :D


Guess most are using FF  :laugh: otherwise there where a comment earlier.
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Re: Annoying Link Hover Effect on These Forums

Post by Joo » Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:31 am

Thanks!

Interesting to see some stats about members' webbrowsers.
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Re: Annoying Link Hover Effect on These Forums

Post by ot2sen » Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:22 am

Predator wrote:Guess most are using FF  :laugh: otherwise there where a comment earlier.

Good to know that we are at least 2 out here  ;D
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Re: Annoying Link Hover Effect on These Forums

Post by eyezberg » Tue Dec 20, 2005 5:35 pm

I was going to post this untill IE became unusable 3 days ago (would open and just freeze, never load a site). I cleaned cace, no go, I edited the registry to pretend it was not installed in order to reinstall, but it wouldn't let me even though the registry hack was straight from M$ own knowledgebase (error about never version already installed), so now, I do not have IE anymore, set FF as default, and am still alive! :)
I'd like to get it back though as all bookmarks are in there.. :(
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Re: Annoying Link Hover Effect on These Forums

Post by de » Tue Dec 20, 2005 10:30 pm

eyezberg wrote:I'd like to get it back though as all bookmarks are in there.. :(

But Firefox usually asks you to import those... because Firefox was listening to your KB-hack and pretended the IE is not there?
You could try to use Bookmarks -> Bookmark Manager -> Import

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Re: Annoying Link Hover Effect on These Forums

Post by eyezberg » Wed Dec 21, 2005 5:07 pm

That's what I did indeed right after I posted this, worked like a charm.. sometimes writing stuff down gives you new ideas :)
FF was already installed, but only used as 2nd browser..
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