FW: Intent to drop mouseover links

[Doug Smythies]

Just for our information:

On 2017.03.26 11:13 Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-03-24 at 21:03 +0100, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>> Hi Shaun,
>> 
>> On 2017-03-24 19:57, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Shaun McCance <shaunm at gnome.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I want to break mouseover links.
>>>> ...
>>>> Style hints and experimental namespaces have no stability
>>>> guarantee. The web site even says stuff like "Do not use it
>>>> unless
>>>> you are tracking Yelp development closely."
>>>> 
>>>> Speak up if you want this links style to stay.
>>> The mouseover images are still used by Ubuntu's Desktop Help:
>>> 
>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/17.04/ubuntu-help/
>> Personally I'd prefer the feature to stay. As Jeremy said we use it
>> for 
>> the Ubuntu desktop guide, and I think it allows for a pleasant entry
>> page.
>> 
>> If you still think it should be dropped, can you please consider to 
>> deprecate if for a few years so we don't need to go back and change 
>> things for previous releases.
>
> Thanks Gunnar and Jeremy. I think I've figured out how to implement
> this feature in pure CSS, which reduces the maintenance burden. I'll
> keep it around for a while longer.
>
> --
> Shaun