Bl4Cc4t
tweet popup feature
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Describe the feature You can use screenshots too if you want. Visualization is key!
Previously, when the tweet was clicked on Twitter, only the tweet was opened like a popup,
like this image @Bl4Cc4t
I’m sorry, but I this is pretty much impossible for me. I know this gets requested a lot but do not know how to that.
When you click to reply to someone tweet, it opens a popup that looks like this
Maybe theres a way to use the trigger and the box for this?
If is not posible, mayby add some of the practicals use that the feature had without recreating it entirely. For example, when doing a click in the background where theres nothing, it brings you back to where you were before entering the tweet (instead of going to the blue arrow).
Or also maybe is a posibility to change this to be from the account of the main tweet you are viewing, instead of being all the time the account of the person using twitter
I'm sure that there's probably some way to use the HTML DOM in JS to create a new element at the center of the screen using some kind of overlay element covering the window, kind of like how Discord's popups work.
The tricky part is that new Twitter completely separates the tweet page from the last one. You could try reading the user's browser history to find out what page they opened the tweet from and then open that in the background, but that's a whole can of worms I don't want to open because I'm not experienced in such a field.
This feature is something I'm not very keen on implementing. It would be a challenge to implement this (I'm not even sure if it is possible) and also I think it is way better how it is now. Content lightboxes are something I do not like at all.
I doubt someone will actually look into this, this project had (apart from all the translations) only very few contributions from others so far. But if someone is interested, go ahead and give it a try.