Cursor over links in web pages

[David Aikema]

On January 28, 2003 08:00 pm, Joel Hammer wrote:

Worked fine for me in Konqueror 3.1.0

David Aikema

> Yes.  I tried three browsers:
>
> Opera 6.03 (linux) doesn't work at all.
>
> Netscape (linux) 7.0 works partially. Not in links and only some cursors.
>
> IE 5.0 (windows) works perfectly. It shows all different cursors and works
> in links.
>
> Thanks,
> Joel
>
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:55:58PM -0500, Tim Wunder wrote:
> > On Tuesday 28 January 2003 9:37 pm, someone claiming to be Kurt Wall 
wrote:
> > > Feigning erudition, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > % The problem is the cursor, when over a link,  becomes that whimpy
> > > looking % small hand with the pointed finger, not really very
> > > impressive. Since the % presenter might like to use the mouse to point
> > > out items of interest in % the image, a bigger pointer, like a big
> > > arrow, would be much more useful. %
> > > % I do not know where this is fixed: the GUI,  the browser (I am using
> > > opera, but % may have to use IE if the computer has windows installed),
> > > or in the html.
> > >
> > > I'm pretty certain the cursor is controlled by the GUI, although you
> > > *might* be able to change the cursor using JavaScript or Java or (this
> > > is a stretch) CSS. CSS probably doesn't extend to cursor manipulation,
> > > though, so I'd look at JavaScript first because it is simpler.
> > >
> > > Kurt
> >
> > I remember reading somewhere that you can control the cursor somewhat
> > using CSS. Different browsers may display them slightly differently...
> > <quick google search on "css cursor style">
> > This looks interesting:
> > http://www.codeave.com/css/code.asp?u_log=4017