The Bookmark Doohickey has gotta go

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Alright, gotta get it off my chest: the Bookmark Doodad drives me nuts! I realize this request belongs to NI's vendor's vendor, but here goes:
Quite often, my browser will completely freeze for a few seconds. It catches me off guard every time, but it's always the same thing: I briefly hovered over the Bookmark Doodad, and it freezes while downloading then crunching the popup menu.
The usability issue is a gotcha for both users and non-users of the Doodad:
Users must hover and wait for the menu to show up. If the menu showed up with a click, time is saved.
Non users (and users!) may accidentally hover over the pop-up, only to have it briefly freeze the browser and then display the unwanted menu
In a nutshell, I'm exaggerating when I say it's gotta go, but I really wish the menu would show up with a "click" rather than a "hover" to clean up usability issues for everyone.
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Alternative suggestion #1: simply use the same bookmark mechanism for the Idea Exchange as the Forums to smooth over another divergence between the two platforms.
Alternative suggestion #2: This is probably the only thing you can do Laura, make the [+ Bookmark] picture smaller to minimize the "risk" of hovering
Alternative suggestion #1: simply use the same bookmark mechanism for the Idea Exchange as the Forums to smooth over another divergence between the two platforms.
Alternative suggestion #2: This is probably the only thing you can do Laura, make the [+ Bookmark] picture smaller to minimize the "risk" of hovering
The Bookmark Doodad:
a.lia-user-name-link[href="/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/88938"] {color: black;} a.lia-user-name-link[href="/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/88938"]:after {content: '';} .jrd-sig {height: 80px; overflow: visible;} .jrd-sig-deploy {float:left; opacity:0.2;} .jrd-sig-img {float:right; opacity:0.2;} .jrd-sig-img:hover {opacity:0.8;} .jrd-sig-deploy:hover {opacity:0.8;}
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Answer 1

Laura F. wrote:
Does anyone actually use any of the bookmarks in the widget?  Certainly no one participating in this thread I can tell.
Well, I performed a search for "forums.ni.com" on del.icio.us (the most popular service provider listed among the 298 bookmark providers).
To answer your question - yes! People use del.icio.us to bookmark sites on the forums. There was one in July 2007, two in October 2008, and two in November 2009!
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Although, erm, none of those links are to the Idea Exchange...
Although, erm, none of those links are to the Idea Exchange...
a.lia-user-name-link[href="/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/88938"] {color: black;} a.lia-user-name-link[href="/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/88938"]:after {content: '';} .jrd-sig {height: 80px; overflow: visible;} .jrd-sig-deploy {float:left; opacity:0.2;} .jrd-sig-img {float:right; opacity:0.2;} .jrd-sig-img:hover {opacity:0.8;} .jrd-sig-deploy:hover {opacity:0.8;}