Sneak peaks at threads

[CloudOnMyTongue 0]

I was reading another forum and it had a really neat feature. When you were on the board reading the topic line for each thread if you hovered your mouse over the thread title it gave you the first 4 or 5 lines of the post inside the thread.

If this feature could be added here it would help you figure out what a thread was about if the topic was vague. This would enable to get a sneak peak without clicking on each thread individually.

Same feature can be found below on these forums.

http://www.howardforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=49

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might be good to reduce bandwidth also.
i would think.

[AggieDave 6]

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might be good to reduce bandwidth also.

Or might increase it overall, slowing initial page loads due to the increase in information being sent. The mouseover is sent at the same time during the initial page load, its not usually drawn during a mouseover event.

Not a bad idea, but not sure if it would work well for how this site runs.

It might lead to even crappier thread titles too, which would suck. HA!

Ok, seriously, not a bad idea.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[pilotdave 0]

I implemented basically that same feature on skydivingmovies.com. It definitely slows page loads (especially the way I did it, loading the entire description of each file, not just the first few words). In my case though, I think it probably overall reduces the number of page loads, since people will be less likely to click on a file they aren't going to want to see. It was especially handy when the site was running REALLY slow to begin with, since each page load took forever.

Definitely something I'd like to see here, if it's doable.

Dave