I tend to find them sort of useless...
Ive seen it in a few fourms but its really nice if you have a slow computer and dont want to go to the thread actually...Most of them only display like the first 50 or 100 chars so it don't lag shizzle up.
I tend to find them sort of useless...
Why have to load the whole thread and all the replys when you could just mouse over it and see what its about?
Topic titles tell you what is about. Also, to not load an entire page, the "STOP" button at the top of your browser's window (hotkey usually ESC) is implemented for your convience. And those hover things always make those ugly "undefined" chars (the rectangle) when there's an linebreak.
can you show me an example forum?
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I can't find one right now - basically it's like this:
A Topic (when you hover over it, 50-100 chars of the inside message text appears [title= tags])
http://www.overgrow.com/edge/ they have it

http://www.tickletheater.com/index.php also has it.
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