Discussion on MouseOverThis! | Userscripts.org

Archived Comments, replied by Rod McGuire

Rod McGuire — Sat, 19 May 2007 00:05:51 +0000

First off I believe .onmouseover can be attached to any DOM node, not just links. I've done things like document.body.addEventListener('click', myfun).

Second, I came across a site that used

document.onmouseover = hidestatus;

This is not stored as an attribute of document. To fix this you have to do:

unsafeWindow.document.onmouseover = null;

Archived Comments, replied by nitro322

nitro322 — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:19:47 +0000

Blair, this is a fantastic script. I've been wanting to do something like this myself for quite some time, but I'm just horrible with javascript. Thanks a bunch for the script.

I do have one suggestion, though. Some sites (most notably Google, if you forget to log out of one of their services) use the onMouseDown/onMouseClick event to rewrite the link when you click it. So, even though the status bar shows the "correct" destination when hovering over the link, that destination is changed when the link is actually clicked. Devious.

Would it be possible update this script to catch those events as well? I think a logical way to do it would be to rewrite any links modified by onMouseDown/onMouseClick immediately after page load rather than waiting until the link is actually clicked. That way, you'd be shown the true destination.

Archived Comments, replied by Blair

Blair — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 19:40:29 +0000

Jesse, thats a good idea, I will see what I can do to implement it.

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews

Jesse Andrews — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:05:06 +0000

This is a great little userscript. It currently works by iterating through all the links removing the onmouseover/out. Perhaps we could modify it to act as follows:

If shift is down, then hide don't execute the onmouseover/onmouseout, if not, execute them as written.

This might be able to be accomplished by wrapping the code inside "if (shift_held) { code; }"

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews

Jesse Andrews — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:05:06 +0000

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