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There was an interesting comment made when this was last submitted: > Those are really nicely done effects, and I could see finding a use for > some o

by pen2l 12y ago

There was an interesting comment made when this was last submitted: > Those are really nicely done effects, and I could see finding a use for > some of the effects -- but not triggered on hover, I've pretty much given > up on anything triggered on hover, because of need to support touch. I never thought about it before this way, but it makes some sense. Are people completely giving up hover-on effects because of this? It'll probably make sites marginally faster to give up effects on hover... so that's 2 reasons to ditch hover-on effects already. Do there still exist good reasons to keep it?

ianlunn 12y ago
Hover still applies when a touch device is tapped but obviously if the element is a link the page is navigated away from and thus the effect isn't seen. Not all interactions navigate away from the page though so the effects are useful in those cases. And of course, desktop and other devices with cursor capabilities still make use of hover.
- bioGrad 12y ago
  While it does still semi-work on mobile devices, frankly it is useless. Trying to trigger hover by tapping on the webpage is just frustrating and overall a bad user experience on mobile devices.
Agathos 12y ago
I always hit m.xkcd.com now, never the main site, even when I have a mouse. That hover text was always a pain.
- 0942v8653 12y ago
  Now you can see the title-text by tap-holding on the image too.
listic 12y ago
I am pondering whether we could trigger nice hover effects with something else, e.g. gyroscope, on touch-enabled devices. E.g. I wish for the link text to change color when one moves a mouse (on non-touch-enabled devices) or turns the device around (on touch-enabled devices)
- ianlunn 12y ago
  This is a full-blown version of what you've described but the concept could be applied to simple hover effects too: http://matthew.wagerfield.com/parallax/ http://matthew.wagerfield.com/parallax/

by pen2l 12y ago

ianlunn 12y ago

Hover still applies when a touch device is tapped but obviously if the element is a link the page is navigated away from and thus the effect isn't seen. Not all interactions navigate away from the page though so the effects are useful in those cases. And of course, desktop and other devices with cursor capabilities still make use of hover.

bioGrad 12y ago
While it does still semi-work on mobile devices, frankly it is useless. Trying to trigger hover by tapping on the webpage is just frustrating and overall a bad user experience on mobile devices.

Agathos 12y ago

I always hit m.xkcd.com now, never the main site, even when I have a mouse. That hover text was always a pain.

0942v8653 12y ago
Now you can see the title-text by tap-holding on the image too.

listic 12y ago

I am pondering whether we could trigger nice hover effects with something else, e.g. gyroscope, on touch-enabled devices. E.g. I wish for the link text to change color when one moves a mouse (on non-touch-enabled devices) or turns the device around (on touch-enabled devices)

ianlunn 12y ago
This is a full-blown version of what you've described but the concept could be applied to simple hover effects too: http://matthew.wagerfield.com/parallax/ http://matthew.wagerfield.com/parallax/