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by gopher1 4552 days ago
Unfortunately, hover effects are becoming less important to me because of how awkward they are on touch devices.
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Worst case, you can disable CSS animations on mobile devices via media queries.
I would like to see touch devices start using eyetracking via the camera to infer what you are looking at and enable "ongaze" effects, which would have to be much more subtle versions of onhover. Furthermore, if ongaze, offgaze effects existed, it would be important to allow the user to disable them systemwide (i.e. short-circuit ongaze so it is never trigger).