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De-clutter Your Interface With Hover Controls
- yan 18y agoI like the idea of edit controls being extremely faint and low-contrast, to spring up on hover. That way, there's hints that there's functionality hiding there and does not interrupt the eye as it travels through the interface. Otherwise, users who don't track their eye movement with their mouse might not find editing controls.
- bprater 18y agoAgreed, if it's invisible, it won't be obvious that anything can be done. Also, I'm not sure that :hover is supported in all browsers. Might want to use something like jQuery to cover compatibility issues.
- jcl 18y agoThis technique would render your site unusable in mobile browsers, where it is unintuitive or impossible to hover a cursor.
- jwilliams 18y agoAlso it's terrible for accessibility.
- darkxanthos 18y agoYay! Mystery meat! :-|
- unalone 18y agoOnly if it's used in a context that you wouldn't expect to have to edit. Here it seems like a logical approach.
- jotto 18y agoie6 doesn't support hover on anything other than anchors