Those hidden links might look cool, but are not that good from the usability standpoint. The problem is most obvious on the pages that have the ‘Mouse over ..’ help texts. It would take less space to just put the links and versions there. I started moving them to the sidebar in our local setup. Should I start posting the patches, or it is against one for the ‘opinions’? :-)

The hidden links for edits etc are from Beast. Dev’il extends Beast and tried to be consistent with it.

The hidden links aids readability and the clean appearance of the content. I have plans to make them more usable. I don’t agree that they are not good from a usability standpoint per se. The main issue with them is discovery (for new or infrequent users) and target. My plan is to make them appear on mouse movement over the page and fade with mouse inactivity.

ohh. good idea. that solves my main problem of difficulty of aiming the mouse on a hidden link.

Great!

In the meantime i’ve submitted a patch that will remove the ‘hiding’ and ‘unhiding’

http://devil.brightredglow.com/tickets/20

It should do the trick