Re: [ANN] hoverMe 3.0 -- An Even More Sophisticated Image Hover Script

optimistx wrote:

> I saw an small image with a text 'ABOUT'. When moving the cursor over the
> image I saw a tooltip 'ABOUT'.
>
> When clicking the image I saw an index of files with names containing
> 'worm'.
>
> Nothing else.

Either image display, or client-side script support, or both are disabled
with, or not (sufficiently) supported by your user agent. You should have
seen a change of color in the "ABOUT" _image_ (not text) when you moved
the pointer (hovered) on and off it, as there is an exchange of images then.
Which is basically what hoverMe is about, although other applications are
possible.

The "index of files with names containing 'worm'" is the content of the
about/ directory that is navigated to if client-side script support is not
present (and so the click event cannot be canceled). The "files with names
containing 'worm'" are worm.de.html and worm.en.html which do not contain
any worm (as you might have thought) of course, but inform visitors about
e-mails that they may have received looking as if they were from me, but
are not (in fact there was/is a worm spreading on the Net that not only
falsifies e-mail header information but also included the domain name in
the message, making it look official). Both resources are linked to from
the English and German version of my home page.

(I did say that hoverMe was not for the completely clueless, did I not?)

> Is this an April fool's day joke?

Absolutely not. It would have been a little bit too late for that anyway.

PointedEars
Received on Mon May 1 05:03:15 2006