Hovercards is a plugin currently in development stages which adds profile cards when you hover on a username. It's based upon drop and Color Thief.
Hovercards is not a complicated plugin. As such, it does not come with many hardcoded options, but it does what it's supposed to do: display cards on hover. These are some major features you will find in the final release:
The main goal is to let customers have full control over the data displayed within a profile card. Administrators will be able to select what data points to add within the settings panel; once a data point becomes available, they can reference it in Hovercards' templates, which are then packed and built upon every single hover on an username.
Every card has its own background color which is picked upon the dominant one from the user's avatar. Text color is adjusted to be readable according to the background color.
Hovercards queries the database just the first time you hover on a username, gathering all the users available in the page with one query. This adds an extra layer of trust when it comes to properly assign an user's data to the respective target on screen. And it also saves resources by avoiding too many queries.
MyBBoost is packed with the currently-in-development version of Hovercards. You can hover every username to let the respective card appear.
Hovercards will be available for Gold Subscribers once its ready. #144 applies.
Main features
Hovercards is not a complicated plugin. As such, it does not come with many hardcoded options, but it does what it's supposed to do: display cards on hover. These are some major features you will find in the final release:
Extensibility
The main goal is to let customers have full control over the data displayed within a profile card. Administrators will be able to select what data points to add within the settings panel; once a data point becomes available, they can reference it in Hovercards' templates, which are then packed and built upon every single hover on an username.
Adaptive colors
Every card has its own background color which is picked upon the dominant one from the user's avatar. Text color is adjusted to be readable according to the background color.
All-in-one query
Hovercards queries the database just the first time you hover on a username, gathering all the users available in the page with one query. This adds an extra layer of trust when it comes to properly assign an user's data to the respective target on screen. And it also saves resources by avoiding too many queries.
Demo
MyBBoost is packed with the currently-in-development version of Hovercards. You can hover every username to let the respective card appear.
Availability
Hovercards will be available for Gold Subscribers once its ready. #144 applies.
Hovercards has received a significant update which stabilizes the whole displaying/hiding process. Make sure to wipe your browser's cache in order to receive the latest file as the plugin is still not under version control. You can test the new version by hovering very quickly on random usernames in the "who as been online today" box you can find in the homepage.