Feature Request: Emulate MouseOver

The above screenshot is from Nseries.com. I decided to take a look at the latest official marketing materials, drool over the new Nokia N96, and cry on the inside for the continued lack of US 3G version of the Nokia N82. In that site visit, I realized how heavily "mouseover" effects are used in navigation.

This isn't the first time I've noticed growing extensive use of information that pops up on mouseover. A good number of sites I visit regularly have "info-boxes" that pull up extended information on a highlighted word.

On the tablet, however, the site navigation is quite different. There are no popping info boxes, automatically expanding menus, or smooth mouse-following effects. This is because the tablet does not know where a non-clicking cursor is hovering at any given time. Since active digitizers (the ones on high-end tablet PCs with the special hover-aware stylus) are not an option on this device, perhaps an emulation of "hover mode" will help. For example: holding down the Fn key while moving the stylus around the screen could behave as normal mouse movement instead of the click-and-drag default.

Food for thought.