Show HN: GitHub Hovercard v0.3.3

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Post by Justineo » Sat, Dec 26, 2015, 7:26 AM UTC

Show HN: GitHub Hovercard v0.3.3
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Re: Show HN: GitHub Hovercard v0.3.3

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Post by mappum » Sat, Dec 26, 2015, 9:49 AM UTC

Definitely a very useful Chrome extension. I discover a lot of Github repos through my Github frontpage feed, and this will make reading the descriptions much quicker.

Re: Show HN: GitHub Hovercard v0.3.3

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Post by captn3m0 » Sat, Dec 26, 2015, 10:04 AM UTC

Wonderful extension idea. Maybe we could extend it further for other popular destinations (links to tweets, facebook pages, email addresses, domains).

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Post by Rygu » Sat, Dec 26, 2015, 10:57 AM UTC

Very cool. It does remind me of the incredibly useful Peek functionality on iPhone 6S when you 3D Touch an item on screen. Have you considered rebranding as GitHub Peek? :)

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Post by fit2rule » Sat, Dec 26, 2015, 11:37 AM UTC

I guess I don't understand why this needs to be an extension and can't be a CSS popup or whatever .. anyone know?

Re: Show HN: GitHub Hovercard v0.3.3

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Post by dbpokorny » Sat, Dec 26, 2015, 12:13 PM UTC

mappum wrote: post #2

Definitely a very useful Chrome extension. I discover a lot of Github repos through my Github frontpage feed, and this will make reading the descriptions much quicker.

yeah but none of them can beat Rijisa Mineru the foolish Destroyer of Github

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Post by adzicg » Sat, Dec 26, 2015, 1:02 PM UTC

fit2rule wrote: post #5

I guess I don't understand why this needs to be an extension and can't be a CSS popup or whatever .. anyone know?

From what I can see, it's not developed by github but an independent developer. Chrome extensions are a way for third-parties to inject content/scripts into sites they don't own.

Re: Show HN: GitHub Hovercard v0.3.3

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Post by r3bl » Sat, Dec 26, 2015, 4:05 PM UTC

I'm not really a fan of the website design since it mimics GitHub so much that it took me like 30 seconds to figure out that this is a third party product. I have installed the extension and it seems pretty useful, but I just wish that the design is a bit more different so others won't feel as confused as I did when I first opened it.

Re: Show HN: GitHub Hovercard v0.3.3

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Post by Justineo » Sat, Dec 26, 2015, 4:11 PM UTC

r3bl wrote: post #8

I'm not really a fan of the website design since it mimics GitHub so much that it took me like 30 seconds to figure out that this is a third party product. I have installed the extension and it seems pretty useful, but I just wish that the design is a bit more different so others won't feel as confused as I did when I first opened it.

Thanks for the feedback, I should add a note about that. I made it designed exactly like GitHub because I want visitors to see how it actually works on GitHub.

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Post by ricardobeat » Sat, Dec 26, 2015, 4:42 PM UTC

Why no cross-browser support? Supporting Safari and IE11/Edge doesnt take much.