hover effects and tablets
TappedOut forum
Posted on Sept. 1, 2013, 3:43 a.m. by Triforce-Finder
Many touchscreen browsers, especially my beloved firefox, can't handle hover effects. Is there a possibility to add a toggle in the settings that changes the single click on card names to trigger the hovering instead of following the link? That might actually even be handy on desktop computers.
Yeah, I could use dolphin, but that can't handle the search window and playtesting widgets (they don't scroll). To date, there is no tablet browser that is capable of displaying your entire page correctly. And I'd like to stick with the one that handles most things well and has some decent privacy functions (aka firefox).
I tend to hold down on the link till the menu to open in new tab, etc... pops up, then dismiss that and the card shows. This is with chrome on a nexus 7 tablet and safari on iphone.
September 1, 2013 8:54 a.m.
Triforce-Finder says... #4
Talking about android here. :)
Abusing longclicks or drag-touches to trigger the hover effect without activating the link works in some browsers, dolphin being the most popular example. None of those support proper adblocking, let alone advanced privacy functions like blocking google anal-ytics, tracker cookies and the like. I mean, google even bans adblockers from the play store. No Chrome will ever set foot on this device, not while I'm breathing.
September 1, 2013 12:55 p.m.
Cobthecobbler says... #5
On android, since you have to drag the screen to scroll, what I do is I touch the link, and drag the screen down or up a bit and that does the trick. It's pseudo-hover.
September 1, 2013 1:52 p.m.
Triforce-Finder says... #6
Yeah, thanks.
I honestly appreciate the sentiment - you're trying to help, only dumb people take offense in that - but i know all the exploits there are to trick a browser into displaying hover effects. Notice how i mentioned drag-touches above? The problem in Firefox is, they don't work. That's the downside of a well-coded program - not even close as many codeholes to exploit.
Why not use another browser? Answered in my last post.
smackjack says... #2
they could use ontouchstart and ontouchend to show and hide the card. Show on touch start and hide on touch end. That way, hover will work just fine on touch devices and the desktop version will remain the same since it doesn't use ontouchstart.
September 1, 2013 7:14 a.m.