On mobile I use(d) Relay for Reddit browsing. The app has a feature that I miss in Jerboa.
In posts/comments, [hyperlinked text can be long-pressed to reveal the destination](hi there i am a URI to any other website) in a pop-up overlayed on the link (sorry, I don’t know the proper term for this UI tool) without actually opening to the link. Upon tapping off the pop-up, it closes and I tap on the URI to follow through to it, or not, as I wish. In Jerboa, pressing a hyperlink only opens it, site unseen (pun intended).
This change would be useful because sometimes I don't want to open the linked page, given the target (e.g. youtube, instagram).
In Jerboa I see no way of discovering the URI of a hyperlink without following to it, which would be convenient to avoid.
8 Comments
cyberian_khatru@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 3y
I liked a feature from RiF where, with a single tap on a link, you got a pop up showing the full url with the options to share/copy/go, and arrows to select the previous or next links if applicable.
God, I will miss that app
Edit: current behavior can be kept and the suggested pop up could be implemented for long press.
peril30@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz · 7 pts · 3y
+1, this is a really essential feature
NoTime@lemmy.one · 5 pts · 3y
As well as showing the link, it would be good if there were options too (all of my examples are from Relay as that was the perfect app for me):
jago@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 3y
Thanks for this screenshot, it's exactly what I was referring to in Relay. I'd forgotten about the action options -- of course that functionality is desirable, too.
humanplayer2@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 3y
I suggest you make this suggestion on GitHub, with the enhancement requests, so it can be properly tracked. I think it'll just disappear here.
XTL@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 3y
Also, copy URI from same popup.
DivergentHarmonics@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 3y
see here: https://lemmy.ml/post/1285175