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@@ -20,3 +20,34 @@ How about doing something a little like [[plugins/toggle]] for the excess
 items instead?
 
 -- [[Jon]]
+
+----
+
+An additional, related issue: if the box expands beyond the bottom of the
+page, you might move your mouse pointer to the scrollbar in order to move
+further down the list, but of course then you are outside the hover region.
+
+-- [[Jon]]
+
+> I agree, browser handling of this CSS is often not good.
+> 
+> A toggle would be the perfect UI, but the heaviness of needing
+> to include 30 lines of javascript to do it, plus then it only working
+> with javascript enabled, is also not optimal.
+> 
+> Another idea would be to make the "..." a link to the ikiwiki cgi. 
+> The cgi could then have a mode that displays all the backlinks of a page
+> in a list.
+> 
+> Yet another idea: Find some more refined CSS for handling a variable
+> size popup.. --[[Joey]] 
+
+>> The HTML5 "Details" tag would be perfect:
+>> <https://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_details.asp>
+>> <details><summary>example</summary>here's an example</details>
+>> The above works for me on ikiwiki.info which does not have `html5:1`
+>> so far as I can tell *— [[Jon]], 2020-04-21*
+
+>>> [[!tag patch]]Patch in my repo, commit f051f84f632c3eaf86c5cff172692ce71ad5375d.
+>>> [[!template id=gitbranch branch=jon/more-backlinks-html5-use-details-tag author="[[Jon]]"]]
+>>> (I must say this looks *much* nicer, IMHO) *—[[Jon]], 2020-10-07*