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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Idea for tool preview on mouseover...
From:       Sven Niedner <niedner () physik ! uni-kiel ! de>
Date:       2002-03-09 11:03:42
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On Saturday 09 March 2002 09:41, Andreas Pour wrote:
> If we could move away from the client perspective to the server
> perspective, I would probably have to shut down KDE.com if every one
> that came there with Konqueror decided to fill their pipes with
> dynamically-generated webpages.  I simply can't afford an S390 and a
> T3 line on a free (free being to the user only) site so you can save
> a second when you want to view a page.

A valid and important point. So, there are two "ways out": The first is 
simply to show the information that is availiable in the document, and 
maybe the results of a HEAD request. My suggestion: Make it a 
tooltip-like popup, that completes itself with the information of HEAD 
after a while, e. g. 2 seconds. Or: put a button in the tooltip (I am 
not shure what this means from a usability standpoint), like: show more 
information. Useful information would be a) if the page is available 
(i. e. is it a 404? 403?), if there is a server redirection and where 
it points to, and (maybe) server information.

This could be enhanced by something we already use for the smarticons: 
How about a generic URL-type that allows for server-generated 
thumbnails? This would be really an enhancemnent for usability, and 
would not put the full load on the server. If the server provides this 
information -- fine; if not, it is simply omitted.

What do you think of this? This seems to me a cleaner solution than 
downloading a whole bunch if data, "just in case" it might be needed 
later on.

Greetings,

Sven.
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