I think one alternative works right now, although it’s not elegant: use Markdown’s ability to add a title attribute to links for spoilers. Make a link (a spurious one pointing nowhere, if necessary) with the bracket syntax and then, after the URL, add a space and your spoiler text in double quotes. The Markdown would look something like
This brings up something I’ve been meaning to figure out for a while: is it possible to get to hovertext (on images or hyperlinks) on smartphones? Touchscreens don’t really support mouseover, after all.
If not (and all my research indicates not), this would be rather annoying for me, as that’s how I most frequently access the site.
I was thinking about this question today and had an idea: instead of putting a fake URL, link to a ROT-13 site like decode.org with a URL that decrypts to the desired text. Thus, if you wanted to say “Snow is white” in a spoilered fashion:
Good question. I don’t have a smartphone and don’t know. And now I think a bit more about it, I wonder about screen readers. If screen readers indiscriminately read out links’ title text then people using them would automatically get spoiled.
I think one alternative works right now, although it’s not elegant: use Markdown’s ability to add a title attribute to links for spoilers. Make a link (a spurious one pointing nowhere, if necessary) with the bracket syntax and then, after the URL, add a space and your spoiler text in double quotes. The Markdown would look something like
An example: hover over this text.
This isn’t a disinterested suggestion, by the way. I find ROT13 far more annoying than spoilers so I’d prefer a simple hover-to-reveal trick.
This brings up something I’ve been meaning to figure out for a while: is it possible to get to hovertext (on images or hyperlinks) on smartphones? Touchscreens don’t really support mouseover, after all.
If not (and all my research indicates not), this would be rather annoying for me, as that’s how I most frequently access the site.
I was thinking about this question today and had an idea: instead of putting a fake URL, link to a ROT-13 site like decode.org with a URL that decrypts to the desired text. Thus, if you wanted to say “Snow is white” in a spoilered fashion:
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Good question. I don’t have a smartphone and don’t know. And now I think a bit more about it, I wonder about screen readers. If screen readers indiscriminately read out links’ title text then people using them would automatically get spoiled.