As a user I despise hover menus. They are always a point of distraction. "Oh, it's a hover menu. Now let me try to figure out how to hover through this nested nightmare."
Desktop, web, wherever.
Desktop, web, wherever.
That it's the default behaviour is still mind boggling.
I'm always accidentally triggering the gigantic hover menu. So annoying.
I only have in-depth VS Code experience writing Go with gopls so maybe this is a very niche issue but it’s so frustrating seeing so much wasted effort go into making and using and solving the weird inconsistencies of hover-based UI elements. The inevitable mess of hacky state management is an invented problem - the cursor should only affect state when buttons are pressed. I miss Plan 9.
I’m not sure which is the more annoying aesthetic:
- mousing across the screen and accidentally passing over an item that on-hovers a giant div in front of what you were trying to access
- expecting a click to expand and click, but it hovers, and now you’ve clicked, so you’re going to some random page you didn’t intend to
Ok, I can go about my weekend now that this is off my chest.
:)
Like every link in Wikipedia. The preview feature is just awful.
I for my part love the Wikipedia preview hovers!
I actually don't even understand what could be perceived bad about them. Are people really moving the mouse cursor randomly around the screen without having conscious control of their hand movements? (I understand that this could be true in case of some medical condition like Parkinson's disease but not a general issue at all). Don't want to sound offensive; honest question.
This is close to my biggest pet peeve on the internet. Fortunately, the "kill sticky" bookmarklet[0] gets rid of those as well as other fixed elements on the page. Works on iOS too.