Rollover to force new site?

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Hi, I´m relatively new to freeway and I´m not that coding-guy. Maybe there´s a simple way to reach my aims.

I want to use a rollover (menu) to force the next page to appear simply by hovering, not by clicking.

Is there a simple way? I´ve tried a lot, yet.

Thanks

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We talked about this a while back. While it is possible, my opinion
(and the consensus here) was that it is a jarring and user-hostile
thing to do. Hover is for “discovery”, not action. It’s the look and
see aspect that you’d be short-cutting and that’s going to make the
visitor feel nervous.

Walter

On Apr 8, 2011, at 3:50 AM, Dirk H wrote:

Hi, I´m relatively new to freeway and I´m not that coding-guy. Maybe
there´s a simple way to reach my aims.

I want to use a rollover (menu) to force the next page to appear
simply by hovering, not by clicking.

Is there a simple way? I´ve tried a lot, yet.

Thanks

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Thanks Walter for reply. Suppose you`re right, but I really have to try it. Any help?

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Here’s a little test you can try, using the Protaculous Action to make
it easier. Draw an HTML box on your page, double-click inside it, and
add some links (and text) to it so you have a test-bed. Make note of
the name of the box, as reported in the Title field of the Inspector
while the box itself is selected (handles showing on the corners and
sides). I’m using testBox below as the name, but you should make sure
either to change the Title of your HTML box to testBox, or change the
code pasted below to match whatever name you want to use. Make sure
this is a layered box, also (the Layer checkbox will be ticked in the
Inspector).

Apply Protaculous to the page, choose prototype-packed from the
Library picker, and then click on the top Function Body button. Paste
in the following code:

$$('#testBox a').invoke(
	'observe',
	'mouseover',
	function(evt){
		window.open(this.href, 'test');
	}
});

What this does is take all links (a tags) inside the testBox
container, and set them up to respond to a mouseover by opening a new
window containing the href (address) of that link.

This code is easy to maintain and extend, since it only has to occur
in one place to affect all links in the target element. If you wanted
to rig more elements on the same page, you could extend the “selector”
part of the function call using CSS notation:

$$('#foo a, #bar a, #baz a')...

Walter

On Apr 8, 2011, at 9:22 AM, Dirk H wrote:

Thanks Walter for reply. Suppose you`re right, but I really have to
try it. Any help?

Cheers

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Puh, I tried - but I failed. I wrote a Hyperlink in the box, but it´s not working. The same for URLs.

Maybe it´s my complete dumbness concerning html.

Thanks a lot for your help, anyway.

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It’s not you, it’s me and possibly Safari.

First, change the code to this:

$$('#testBox a').invoke(
	'observe',
	'mouseover',
	function(evt){
		window.open(this.href, 'test');
	}
);

The only difference being removing a curly-bracket from the last line.

But when I went to test this, I got it to not throw any errors, but it
wasn’t doing anything either. Then I remembered that the window.open
method is precisely what Safari’s “Popup blocker” feature (enabled by
default) is there to prevent. Once I disabled that feature, this
worked fine. Your visitors may have the same feature on their browsers
as well. That may be one reason why this navigation method hasn’t seen
more uptake, I am guessing.

Walter

On Apr 8, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Dirk H wrote:

Puh, I tried - but I failed. I wrote a Hyperlink in the box, but it
´s not working. The same for URLs.

Maybe it´s my complete dumbness concerning html.

Thanks a lot for your help, anyway.

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I have to add my voice to this rollover/link discussion.

The thought of a site that whisks me off somewhere without warning is analogous to those popup ads that always seem to be replaced by another when dismissed.

To take that sort of control away from your visitor is unacceptable and I certainly would NOT be staying very long.

Please reconsider.

David

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Hello guys, that’s not my thread either, but I totally agree with David and Walter. It’s really bad. It’s like the popups or even similar to receiving a letter from Capital One or any credit card company you never requested, every week…every month…The first thing I do is to leave the website or put the letter on the shedder…

regards,
Marcus

On Apr 8, 2011, at 1:56 PM, DeltaDave wrote:

I have to add my voice to this rollover/link discussion.

The thought of a site that whisks me off somewhere without warning is analogous to those popup ads that always seem to be replaced by another when dismissed.

To take that sort of control away from your visitor is unacceptable and I certainly would NOT be staying very long.

Please reconsider.

David

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