I've seen a couple of sites that use vBulletin, and one thing I really like is the fact that you can put your mouse over forum topics, and see some of the text of the post. I would really like to see this in the forum and also in node lists.

vBulletin uses alternate text in the link, but I would prefer if it was a javascript box. Alternate text on windows displays one line of text only, which limits the amount of text that can be shown.

This could also apply to tracker.module, and also in the node/comment admin pages. This would also slow down page loading, unless some sort of AJAX is used.

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Liam McDermott’s picture

Liam McDermott CreditAttribution: Liam McDermott commented
Version: x.y.z » 7.x-dev

I believe that was done in vBulletin for SEO purposes (can't find the link now), so they deliberately used the title tag. My vote is to implement this using a title tag on the links in the topic list. Javascript is overkill for a simple feature like this, it's mainly worth doing for the the SEO benefits IMO.

andypost’s picture

andypost
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Version: 7.x-dev » 8.x-dev

Suppose this this task is for contrib module

jhedstrom’s picture

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Issue summary: View changes
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Closing due to inactivity (it can currently be accomplished via JS/theme/contrib). Please re-open if somebody would like to pursue this.