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diff --git a/doc/bugs/backlinks_onhover_thing_can_go_weird.mdwn b/doc/bugs/backlinks_onhover_thing_can_go_weird.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..dac73c1ad --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/backlinks_onhover_thing_can_go_weird.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +I was just hovering over the '...' next to the backlinks on a page on +<http://ikiwiki.info/>. In terms of the size of my browser window, this was +towards the bottom-right of the screen. + +When I hovered over the '...', the additional backlinks float appeared. This +caused the page length to grow down, meaning a horizontal scrollbar was added +to the page. This meant the text reflowed, and the '...' moved outside of my +mouse pointer region. + +This caused an infinite loop of box appears... text moves, box disappears... +box re-appears.. which was not very visually pleasant. + +In general I think that the onhover float is a bit of bad UI. Even a truncated +list of backlinks looks cluttered due to there being no delimiters. I moved to +having an always-complete list of backlinks and having them as LI elements +inside a UL to make it look neater, although I appreciate that would make some +pages very long indeed. + +How about doing something a little like [[plugins/toggle]] for the excess +items instead? + +-- [[Jon]] |