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A preview of the page behind the link

Hover over a menu item or a link in the text, and a small card shows the page you would land on before you click.

Known from Wikipedia’s page previews, rarely used in navigation

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Weekend reading

The slow north

We took the train from Copenhagen to Tromsø and learned that the night train is the best way to see the country, and that the fish soup in Bodø is worth getting off for.

  • See before you clickThe card shows a miniature of the page itself: address, headline, image and how much there is to read.
  • Warm and coldThe first card waits 300 ms, so it does not pop up when you merely pass by. After that it switches instantly between items.
  • The same pattern in the textLinks in the body text get the same preview, so the reader never loses the thread.