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Aug 21, 2006, 06:04 AM
 
I go to some other forums, also vbulletin based, and they have a tooltip of the first few lines of the first post appear when you leave the cursor over a thread title. Its handy to see if a thread is worth clicking into or see what the general idea of the thread is. Is this something that could be put into MacNN forums? I think it would be useful.

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Aug 21, 2006, 10:58 AM
 
we had it enabled when we upgraded to VB3 awhile back, but enough people complained about it that we disabled it.
     
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Aug 21, 2006, 12:42 PM
 
The feature on Airliners.net is a very good compromise. At the end of each topic title there is a small icon that is clickable, and it opens a field containing the first post in that thread. [the topic titles are cut off on the left side of the pic, so it wouldn't be to wide]

Example:





.. and then the icon can be clicked again or the [x] clicked and the field disappears again. Very neat.

check it out at a.net

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Aug 21, 2006, 01:21 PM
 
meh. I like the post headings (Rpl: Posted By: Views: etc etc)
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Aug 21, 2006, 01:39 PM
 
I'd prefer some Googe ads in a pop-up box

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Aug 21, 2006, 05:10 PM
 
Could it be set to be a user option, so people who like it can have it and the haters can leave it off?

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Aug 22, 2006, 12:36 AM
 
Tooltip hater.
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Aug 23, 2006, 10:46 AM
 
Originally Posted by Ω
Tooltip hater.
And proud of it

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Aug 24, 2006, 05:26 AM
 
Fighting the tooltip over on AI.

Why is the setting always so aggressive? When it sniffs you might be over a link it pops up, obscuring everything beneath it and then stays that way for 6.8 minutes.

If it was an option, I would support it, but as a default....
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