Site Hovers



The hovers around the site (user and item hovers) have been updated! This should speed up your page views by a lot, and they should be a lot more reliable. It should also make pages with a lot of items like big shops load much faster!

Technical
We moved the hovers to the javascript framework we hope to have all of our code running in the future. This will make page loads significantly less stressful on your browsers. Prior to this it searched the entire page to find all of the elements that could hover (which is why sometimes you saw images have the item hover on them) and gave them a hover. Now, it isn't activated until you actually hover. Also, you actually get a little spin thing now while waiting for the information to pop up.

It also means previously where we had issues with hovers not working (in places where content appears after the page loads - places like trades, and newer pages that use single page navigation) will now work automatically.
September 24, 2014, 9:54 pm by Timpani
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Holy smokes, this is a huge improvement. Especially when loading shop pages like the Steamworks Menagerie and Esther's. Much nicer to look at too.

September 24, 2014, 9:53 pm by Keith
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We've moved away from single pages like the trades, and more like single pages like the achievements page which should make hitting the back button perfectly fine :)

September 24, 2014, 9:52 pm by Inknote
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Oh my god trade previews work nowwwwww o

September 24, 2014, 9:50 pm by Damon
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Thank you so much!

September 24, 2014, 9:50 pm by Mike
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This in itself is fantastic, but I still don't like single page navigation, especially the trades page. It's extremely frustrating not to be able to use the back button when you're trying to sort through lots and make offers on several, or compare items in trades or to do anything that requires more than just bidding on a reserved lot basically -.- I think they should just be multi-page navigation more like shop search and shops, they would be much easier nicer to use.

tl;dr Like the update but not if it means keeping/adding single page navigations like it is for the trades page.

September 24, 2014, 9:48 pm by DreamsInPink
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Previews in trades? Yes! Yes! Yesssssssssssss!!! <3

September 24, 2014, 9:48 pm by SeriousGreen
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Love the new look...cleaner and faster!

September 24, 2014, 9:47 pm by Memorv
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Wow, love it! Thank you!

September 24, 2014, 9:46 pm by Catgut
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Load speeds are fantastic, I like them!

September 24, 2014, 9:46 pm by RR-Xeras
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Amazing!

September 24, 2014, 9:46 pm by cartel
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[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/yCHLMen.gif[/IMG] item hovers in trades = AWESOME.

September 24, 2014, 9:46 pm by Foolkillersfancy
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Awesome! Thank you, Keith!!

September 24, 2014, 9:45 pm by Minta
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Wonderful! :D

September 24, 2014, 9:45 pm by Marauder
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Awesome! Such a small improvement yet so big at the same time~

September 24, 2014, 9:45 pm by MistressMurder
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Awesome, thank you. c:

September 24, 2014, 9:45 pm by MikiDaCrow
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How awesome, thank you!

September 24, 2014, 9:44 pm by Zelor
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This is great, thank you!

September 24, 2014, 9:44 pm by Holden
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Thanks!

September 24, 2014, 9:44 pm by Kevin
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I like this.

September 24, 2014, 9:44 pm by girlikecupcake
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I've already noticed better load speeds, both in the pages with a bunch of items and in the individual hovers. This is awesome, so thanks :)

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