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Re:In Praise of the Unambiguous Click Menu by lucb1e on Saturday March 20, 2021 @11:30AM (#26523803)
Back in the good ol' days, that is 2018, I had this Galaxy Note 2 with a little pen. When hovering the pen over the screen, it would create a cursor under it and trigger onhover events when moving it around just like a desktop cursor.

I could open hover menus on mobile from 2012-2018 when not all sites were adjusted to mobile yet.

It was glorious.

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Re:In Praise of the Unambiguous Click Menu by frosted-flakes on Sunday March 21, 2021 @12:09AM (#26528041)
The BlackBerry Classic from 2014 worked this way too. It had an optical trackpad that controlled the focus, except in the browser where it was an actual pointer.
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Re:In Praise of the Unambiguous Click Menu by gmueckl on Saturday March 20, 2021 @12:57PM (#26524379)
Still works in all the newer Samsung devices with an S-Pen, even in some regular apps, where you get to see e.g. button tooltips when hovering. This little stylus is what makes me stick with that brand, admittedly.
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