Opera has a little feature that I haven’t seen in any other browser: it displays the address of the destination page as a tooltip when hovering over the primary navigation buttons such as back and forward.
My question is: why use the URL when you can use the page title?
CMS-generated URLs can often be unsightly and uninformative things while page titles usually provide more useful textual information.
If the destination is an image, use the alt attribute text for the tooltip. If the destination is a bookmarked page, use the name assigned by the user.
July 21, 2004 at 5:26 AM
I love Opera for features like this… There is always something new that I never realized existed. Excellent browser.
I agree that some URL’s are very unfriendly, but all in all, I still would rather have the URL, than the page title. Although, it is a great idea. Maybe there should be an option… like if you hold SHIFT down while hovering over the BACK button, it would toggle between the URL and the page title. An idea…