Re: Intent to drop mouseover links

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Fri, 2017-03-24 at 21:03 +0100, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> Hi Shaun,
>
> On 2017-03-24 19:57, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>
> > wrote:
> > > I want to break mouseover links.
> > > ...
> > > Style hints and experimental namespaces have no stability
> > > guarantee. The web site even says stuff like "Do not use it
> > > unless
> > > you are tracking Yelp development closely."
> > >
> > > Speak up if you want this links style to stay.
> > The mouseover images are still used by Ubuntu's Desktop Help:
> >
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/17.04/ubuntu-help/
> Personally I'd prefer the feature to stay. As Jeremy said we use it
> for 
> the Ubuntu desktop guide, and I think it allows for a pleasant entry
> page.
>
> If you still think it should be dropped, can you please consider to 
> deprecate if for a few years so we don't need to go back and change 
> things for previous releases.

Thanks Gunnar and Jeremy. I think I've figured out how to implement
this feature in pure CSS, which reduces the maintenance burden. I'll
keep it around for a while longer.

--
Shaun