Hovercards fail to suppress the browser's link title popups
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	• Tbayer
	Sep 12 2016, 10:08 AM

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As a reader, I don't want to see both the title of the article, as it is distracting

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Title tag doesn't appear when hovercards are on
Title tag appears when hovercards are off

Description

MediaWiki sets the title tag on all internal links, and many/most browsers show it as a small popup when one hovers over the link. This often interfers with hovercards (not always - I'm also seeing lots of hovercards without accompanying title popups).

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from https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond , browsing anonymously on September 10:

from https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Hauptseite , browsing while logged in with Hovercards beta feature enabled on August 17:

from https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannes , browsing while logged in with Hovercards beta feature enabled on August 17:

All on Chrome under Linux.

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• Tbayer created this task.Sep 12 2016, 10:08 AM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptSep 12 2016, 10:08 AM

Aklapper added a project: Page-Previews.Sep 12 2016, 4:52 PM

MBinder_WMF edited projects, added Web-Team-Backlog, Page-Previews (2016-17-Q2-Goal); removed Page-Previews.Sep 13 2016, 5:19 PM

Hovercards has specific behavior for removing title attributes on hover so that shouldn't be happening. This is a bug.

@MBinder_WMF why not Page-Previews ?

@Jhernandez It is in Page-Previews , it's just also in the Milestone within that project, which is why it shows up as "Hovercards (2016-17-Q2-Goal)". @ovasileva determined it was part of the Q2 goal, so we moved it over.

ovasileva triaged this task as High priority.Sep 14 2016, 3:37 PM

ovasileva updated the task description. (Show Details)Sep 14 2016, 3:40 PM

• Jhernandez closed this task as a duplicate of T142723: Title attributes not properly removed on hover.Sep 14 2016, 4:13 PM

Aklapper removed a subscriber: Page-Previews.May 17 2023, 7:34 AM

	F4459234: Hovercard vs. title popup in de_Cannes 2016-08-17.png
	Sep 12 2016, 10:08 AM

	F4459228: Hovercard vs. title popup in hu_James_Bond 2016-09-10.png
	Sep 12 2016, 10:08 AM

	F4459231: Hovercard vs. title popup in de_Wikipedia_Hauptseite 2016-08-17.png
	Sep 12 2016, 10:08 AM

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Hovercards fail to suppress the browser's link title popups
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