Last modified: 2014-06-02 11:27:01 UTC
Disambiguations and other oddities can mean that the first link you select in a typeahead search may not actually be right. You then have to follow the link (which is hard in edit mode) and go looking again. Being able to get a short preview of the selected link target, similar to what Navigation Popups gadget does when hovering over links, would go miles (kilometers) towards making link selection *awesomer*.
I'm not sure this is needed once bug 50240 is fixed, but we should re-consider it then. Also, some form of interaction that doesn't need hover would be needed for touch-screen devices, like mobile.
It probably shouldn't be the highest priority, but as an editor, I would like something like this. In fact, I'd find it far more useful than Hovercards: When I'm reading an article and want to know more about a topic to which there is a link, I usually middle-click it to open it in a new tab and read it a bit later, so I don't really need Hovercards. As I am editing, however, it would be useful for me to add a link and be more sure as to where is the link leading. Is [[Washing Machine]] leading to the article about the appliance or about the Sonic Youth album? Is [[AC/DC]] leading to an article about electrical engineering or about a band? These are real situation in which I found myself recently, and in both of them I had to open a new tab to make sure. So I would love to see something more than just the title when I'm linking. It doesn't even have to be a full-blown Hovercard - just the first few words are likely to be enough. (Although reusing the Hovercards code makes sense, too.)
