Comment by jhhh
13 hours ago
I mouse over the first graphic in dark mode and get flashbanged with a white diagram. Hover text obscures the axis text. I click the diagram hoping to read the text. In the expanded picture the alt text now obscures the axis instead. Close the picture and read on to the starting section. A dropped capital. It looks like an 'R' with some flourish. 'Rnowing'. Ok, it must be a 'k' based on context, but appears to resemble a lower case cursive 'k' and not a capital 'K'. Dropping the capital letter to lowercase in a drop cap. A minuscule pun one character in. Off to a good start. I continue reading to the second diagram. Fearful from my previous encounter I rest my cursor on what looks like a safe zone: 'click to expand'. The section immediately unfurls and pushes the diagram off the page. 'Everything is correlated' I tell myself. If there's a hover event there must be an 'on-not-hover' event too, right? I move my cursor to an empty zone. Nothing happens. I click in the empty space to remind the browser my cursor is not hovering. Nothing. 'Only some things are correlated' I think, closing the section manually. Eventually I see a hovernote 4 and think to myself 'it's nice these notes won't interrupt the flow of reading' as I click on it. The page shifts to show text already on the screen and I lose my place briefly. The word 'error' is now partially obscured by the footnote bounding box. I chuckle to myself. Maybe there is an option for reader mode I think as I start scrolling up. A gear reveals itself in the top corner. As I scroll down the options I see a 'Auto Reader Mode'. Exactly what I need. I move my mouse over to the text. This was a poor choice. The menu retracts and now that my mouse is partially over a hover note it scrolls itself fully into view. 'Tibshirani 2014' is revealed.
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