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Suggestion: Mouse hovering
It would be awesome to have the ability to "hover" the mouse on a certain link. Lots of newer web pages have dropdowns/hover scripts that are only visible when you hover the mouse over a link (as an example, put your mouse over the "Watchers" button, and the "Watchers" tooltip expands from it.
while playing a few minutes on Github I was able to trigger some hover effects with $('<selector>').trigger('mouseover')
Sometimes hover needs to be triggered not only on links, but other elements like images or texts
@smblott-github I've also implemented this at #1032, but with "unhovering" too. This ensures that only one element is ever hovered at any time, by providing a mouseout event to the last hovered element (and provides a command to trigger this manually).
A good example of when the last hovered element should be "unhovered" is the movie images on this IMDb page. Clicking/hovering more than one of these successively with LinkHints.activateModeToOpenInNewTab, LinkHints.activateModeToOpenInNewForegroundTab, or #835's LinkHints.activateHoverEffectMode highlights the issue nicely.
FYI to everyone following this, here are some hints on getting this working: https://github.com/philc/vimium/pull/1032#issuecomment-60500519. Works great! @mrmr1993 Thanks for the work.
+1 Yeah, this would be absolutely amazing. And also feature for focusing that link would be awesome.
For example I need to access volume slider on youtube - I'd target it with focus and then set up volume with arrows (maybe there is another option, but I didn't figure it out yet).
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