On Nov 13, 2008, at 9:12 AM, Jack Moffett wrote:
You could certainly point out situations where it is inappropriate, but I don't see how you can argue that best practice is to not use this technique.
Exactly. We use the hover technique to reveal additional options like Edit and Delete in most of our webapps. Imagine a list of 30 items on a page. If we had Edit and Delete next to every single one of them, that's a lot of visual noise on the screen. Instead, we only reveal these additional actions on hover — it's conditional and contextual. And besides, you're going to have to target that item w/a mouse anyway to perform the action. So, it works pretty well.
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