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I like it. Best feature in Daniweb so far, after Dani that is. :D

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Member Avatar for ~s.o.s~

Are you talking about the thumbnails of featured sites? Yes, they look kawai. :)

Member Avatar for Dani

No, he's talking about this ... www.google.com :)

commented: Really nice job, well thought out. +11
Member Avatar for ~s.o.s~

I don't get it, whats so special about the normal link, inserted using the link tag. Either that, or something sure is wrong on my side. :)

Member Avatar for Dani

You have tooltips turned off, but if you didn't, whenever you hover over a link a little tooltip pops up with a screenshot of the site, so you can see where you're going before you click.

Member Avatar for jbennet

can you tell us how its done, dani?

Member Avatar for Dani

With Javascript :)

Member Avatar for ~s.o.s~

> can you tell us how its done, dani?
AJAX, if that makes you happy. :)

Member Avatar for jbennet

hmm i may look into that. im currently designing (for colege) an ecommerce solution and i think being able to hover over product names to get a pic fo them like that would be good

Member Avatar for ~s.o.s~

> whenever you hover over a link a little tooltip pops up with a screenshot of the site, so you can see
> where you're going before you click.
Yes, it was fun while it lasted. Pity I don't like those pesky hovering beasts.

Member Avatar for christina>you

This a neat feature.

I like it!

Member Avatar for sk8ndestroy14

I like how it used to say something like, "Thumbnail pic coming soon" like it's a movie or something.

Member Avatar for Dani

> can you tell us how its done, dani?
AJAX, if that makes you happy. :)

Actually it's not AJAX :)

Member Avatar for ~s.o.s~

But its not 'only client side' if you know what I mean. You must be pulling those things from somewhere. I have got into the bad habit of calling everything which involves Javascript and pulls data over the connection as AJAX. :)

Member Avatar for Dani

I know what you mean but I don't do it the way you're thinking. :)

Member Avatar for ~s.o.s~

Now you have got me curious with that little trade secret of yours. Well, nothing is hidden from those freaks at the newsgroups. Tada. ;-)

Member Avatar for DaveB

This little feature is great.

Member Avatar for jbennet

I bet you that daniweb keeps thumbs of everywhere the links point to in a cache

Member Avatar for tgreer

http://www.thumbshots.com/ (or something similar). Just more IntelliTXT camoflauge. Once users are trained to hover over every link in order to get a "thumbshot", then IntelliTXT revenue should see a dramatic jump. Go ahead, tell me again how users "know the difference".

Member Avatar for MidiMagic

It's still annoying.

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