Talk:Hoverbox

Lots of organizations are calling these "hovercards"

See

• Twitter in 2010
• hovercards.com, some website
• review of Facebook hovercards in 2012
• review of Google+ hovercards in 2012
• mw:Beta Features/Hovercards is MediaWiki's own hovercard product

Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:54, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Tooltips

A hoverbox can be programmed to be arbitrarily similar to a tooltip. So from the user's point of view, a tooltip is a specific type of hoverbox. So we shouldn't say that it's not a tooltip, we should say that it's a generalization / richer version of tooltips. ~2026-51122-5 (talk) 19:25, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Better image

The image is misleading for several reasons:

• The context is almost entirely cropped, we don't see that the hoverbox covers some text
• It's a screenshot that contains a screenshot
• It shows a UI element (the hoverbox) that contains a screenshot of lots of other UI elements, so it's not very clear whether some of them might be hoverboxes

~2026-51122-5 (talk) 19:29, 23 January 2026 (UTC)