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UKC Forum upgrades

by Nick Smith 5th June 2007

Just added a handful of neat changes to the forums system on UKClimbing.com, including:

Automatically embedding the page title for links, so that when you post a link in the forum, it shows the page title text when you hover your mouse pointer over it. This works even for links to other websites.
Hover your mouse pointer over a UKC image link and the thumbnail pops up, which makes it easier to see which photo people are talking about in threads, and if you want to click on the link to see the full-size image. I think this is much better than embedding photos in a forums thread, which takes up a lot of screen space and forces everyone to download the photos whether they are interested or not. This feature is done using CSS :hover, rather than with Javascript popups.