Hi,
I'm working on some software at the moment that has nothing to do with a forum but has some type of javascript code that lets you see the beginning of the product description when you mouseover a link to the product.
I was thinking that this would be good to think about for at least two reasons :
a) you get the nifty preview appearing and it helps people decide quickly whether or not to go further
b) by ricochet (quote for Paul) you can potentially reduce the amount of server calls since the user will in some cases not click on the link because he will have seen that the discussion is not what he thought it was.

To take this further it would even be interesting to have this function on the NEW messages for up to five previews for example, both private and posted. One notch further would be having a hyperlink in the mouseover to the message.

you could imagine something like this when there is a mouseover :
1. Message from Ian /Re: Your plug-in is great /Body: Thanks for the message, check the new update
2. Message from Paul /Re: Admin validation of users /Body: Check this out
etc.

This may well increase the code that G Forum spurns out and hence increasing overall bandwidth used though in certain cases I suppose it would need to have an active and inactive option through the admin panel.

John
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