Great idea for a modification, but does it already exist?

[garza]

The best way to show you the idea is to show you the site where I saw it. I'm not sure if the site is using Ajax or some of other programming language, but I think the application on VBulletin would be incredible.

If you want to see what I'm thinking, go to the link below and click on the very first story:

http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/demo/?Page=CHANNELINFO&ChannelID=5613

You'll see a window pop open - in a very clean, non-intrusive, way.

Any thoughts?

Does a vbulletin plugin like this already exist?

[Lynne]

If you look at the page source, you'll see they are using iframes and that all the text you see in those "popups" is present in the page source.

I haven't seen a mod for this, but I've never looked either.

[Wayne Luke]

vBulletin Options -> vBulletin Options -> Forum Display Options (forumdisplay)

Set Length of Thread Preview Text to something larger than 150 characters. Then every time you hover over a title, you can get a similar effect. Or you can toss it into hidden divs (better than iframes in my opinion) that show on hover by editing the templates. No mod necessary.

[garza]

Sorry.. Doesn't seem like you actually clicked (just hovered) on the first story here to see what happened:

http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/demo/?Page=CHANNELINFO&ChannelID=5613

I'm looking for a mod that does that. The part that happens after you click!

It would really help keep posters/readers from navigating off of your site.

[cellarius]

You can do that with highslide, for example.
http://highslide.com/

I integrated it into a database frontend I did with vB-technology:
http://www.roma-antiqua.de/forum/hotels.php

It's German, but you can see it in action if you click on the small blue "i"-icon (for information) on the right or on any of the symbols in the second to fourth column of the table. You could show a whole post or thread in there alright, I guess - via Iframe, in this case, too. One would have to replace the links inside forumdisplay template and probably remove navbar from showthread template.

It might have a real good use for the showpost function. Wouldn't that be handy if the link to a single post would just let the post slide open like that?

[cellarius]

I've made one, but it's not realy great
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=159915

I think that in the thread are some links to other(better) modifications
I don't think that he's looking for thread preview (as he stated in his answer to Wayne). I think he wants to open the thread inside of an overlay.

[ragtek]

You're right, havent seen his post.
Sorry

[garza]

I don't think that he's looking for thread preview (as he stated in his answer to Wayne). I think he wants to open the thread inside of an overlay.

Exactly. Thank you. I know this would make a great addition to VBulletin.

[garza]

Anyone?