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Suggestion: improve date tooltip discoverability

Open floooh opened this issue 5 years ago • 2 comments

See this twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/FlohOfWoe/status/1325427548650532864

Currently it's easy to miss the mouse-hover tooltip with the absolute time, especially in strings like this:

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The relative time "29 days ago" is fairly useless, it would be better to know the absolute date, which is hidden in a tooltip which is easy to miss (the date sub-string doesn't make it obvious that something will happen on mouse-hover, and the delay until the tooltip appears is way too long to discover it "by accident").

A visual clue like the dashed line here would do wonders for discoverability:

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floooh avatar Nov 08 '20 13:11 floooh

/cc @github/design-systems

keithamus avatar Nov 19 '20 15:11 keithamus

@flooh thank you for the suggestion! I've filed this issue for our design team to look into.

joelhawksley avatar Nov 19 '20 18:11 joelhawksley

I'm going to close this as this issue tracker should be related to issues around the implementation of relative-time, not its use on GitHub.com. Of course if you're still finding this to be an issue please do contact [email protected]!

keithamus avatar Nov 04 '22 12:11 keithamus