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Evgeny Kuznetsov Evgeny Kuznetsov (M)
 November 29, 2022  One minute to read 
https://jamesg.blog/2022/10/12/hovercards/

I’ve been thinking about adding hovercards to my site for quite a while now, and I think I will in the near future — thanks to your hovercard.js! I think I will modify it to use indieweb-glue-provided data instead of pre-compiled hovercards (of course, this will require expanding indieweb-glue functionality), though.

One thing that bothers me is mobile. Do you plan to do anything about it with hovercard.js? It kinds works on mobile as it is, but it also kinda doesn’t, and I wonder if you have any plan or vision in this regard.

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  • James' Coffee Blog James' Coffee Blog Hello Evgeny! Thank you for your note. I always appreciate it when someone has used software I have made! The hovercards look great :) I have noticed, on iOS, that the hovercard flickers and then takes a user to the destination of the link on which they have clicked. hovercard.js doesn't take control over links, which would be needed to stop the user from being redirected to the next page. I'm not sure what the UX would look like: click once to see a preview, click again to be taken to the destination? Should there be a pop up that says "Here is a preview of XYZ, click to go to the site"? I'm open to any ideas. I use hovercard.js across my site and I would like a cleaner experience on mobile. I'm happy to work toward making it happen!
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